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Day of marriage June 5, 1953

• The temperature on June 5, 1953 was between 3.8 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
  • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
  • June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
  • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.

Day of death March 17, 1991

• The temperature on March 17, 1991 was between 3.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
  • May 15 » Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister.
  • June 7 » Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3mi) high.
  • July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
  • November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
  • December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
• 1996 » René Clément, French director and screenwriter (b. 1913)