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Day of marriage December 22, 1949

• The temperature on December 22, 1949 was between -2.5 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
  • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
  • November 26 » The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

Day of death March 25, 1987

• The temperature on March 25, 1987 was between 6.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The almost completely overcast 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
  • May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
  • July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
  • August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
  • December 8 » Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
  • December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Goodman Ace, American comedian and writer (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Bob Waterfield, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1986 » Gloria Blondell, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1987 » A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Robert Joffrey, American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (b. 1930)
• 1991 » Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop (b. 1905)