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Day of marriage April 23, 1955

• The temperature on April 23, 1955 was between 3.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
  • February 8 » The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
  • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
  • November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Day of death May 5, 2017

• The temperature on May 5, 2017 was between 6.6 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called 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 Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2017: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
  • April 3 » A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
  • May 31 » A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
  • May 31 » U.S. President Donald Trump tweets the word "covfefe" and quickly becomes a worldwide viral phenomenon.
  • October 1 » An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
  • October 27 » Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
  • December 10 » ISIL is defeated in Iraq.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942)
• 2015 » Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935)
• 2017 » Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954)
• 2017 » Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)