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Day of marriage March 28, 1956

• The temperature on March 28, 1956 was between 2.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • February 25 » In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
  • April 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
  • August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
  • September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
  • October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
  • November 2 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy requests UN aid for Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.

Day of death May 29, 1993

• The temperature on May 29, 1993 was between 10.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • May 29 » The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
  • July 22 » Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
  • August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
  • September 21 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
  • September 22 » A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » George C. Homans, American sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Erich Honecker, German lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Lady May Abel Smith, member of the British Royal Family (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)