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Day of marriage January 12, 1956

• The temperature on January 12, 1956 was between 5.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
  • September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
  • October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
  • October 28 » Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
  • October 29 » Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
  • October 31 » Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison. The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Revolution.

Day of death May 12, 2013

• The temperature on May 12, 2013 was between 6.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
  • March 19 » A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
  • March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • April 23 » At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
  • September 16 » A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.

Day of cremation May 17, 2013

• The temperature on May 17, 2013 was between 8.1 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
  • April 22 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
  • August 14 » UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
  • October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
  • October 15 » The 7.2 M_w Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
  • November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Jan Bens, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Gerd Langguth, German political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2014 » H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)