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Day of marriage July 10, 1953

• The temperature on July 10, 1953 was between 10.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
  • April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
  • October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
  • December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

Day of death February 2, 2012

• The temperature on February 2, 2012 was between -8.8 °C and -3.5 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
  • May 19 » Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
  • May 21 » A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
  • July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
  • September 18 » Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.
  • September 21 » Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.

Day of cremation February 7, 2012

• The temperature on February 7, 2012 was between -15.3 °C and -3.7 °C and averaged -8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • June 11 » More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
  • June 15 » Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
  • July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
  • August 23 » A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
  • August 25 » Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
  • December 25 » An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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