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Day of marriage April 10, 1946

• The temperature on April 10, 1946 was between 0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • May 10 » First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
  • July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
  • July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
  • July 25 » The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
  • December 7 » A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.

Day of death December 26, 2016

• The temperature on December 26, 2016 was between 6.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
  • June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
  • June 16 » Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
  • June 23 » The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
  • July 23 » Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
  • December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2015 » Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2016 » George S. Irving, American actor, singer and dancer (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Ricky Harris, American comedian, actor (b. 1962)
• 2017 » Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and television news anchor (b. 1930)