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Day of marriage December 15, 1954

• The average temperature on December 15, 1954 was 7.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
  • April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
  • August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.

Day of death February 16, 2011

• The temperature on February 16, 2011 was between 2.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.
  • September 12 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
  • October 15 » The 2011 Global Protests occur.
  • October 31 » The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
  • November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
  • November 12 » Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2011 » Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2011 » Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
• 2012 » Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
• 2012 » Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2012 » John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916)