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Day of marriage February 15, 1946

• The temperature on February 15, 1946 was between 5.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
  • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
  • August 16 » Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.
  • August 23 » Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
  • October 1 » The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.

Day of death January 20, 2005

• The temperature on January 20, 2005 was between 6.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 14 » In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city.
  • February 28 » A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
  • May 18 » A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
  • June 21 » Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
  • July 10 » Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
  • October 30 » The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Al Hirschfeld, American painter and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 2004 » Alan Brown, English racing driver (b. 1919)
• 2004 » T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Miriam Rothschild, English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Per Borten, Norwegian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)