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Day of marriage June 17, 1953

• The temperature on June 17, 1953 was between 10.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
  • November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
  • 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 October 1, 2006

• The temperature on October 1, 2006 was between 11.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 21 » The social media site Twitter is founded.
  • July 12 » The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
  • August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
  • August 23 » Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
  • September 19 » The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
  • December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Fawaz al-Rabeiee, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
• 2006 » Jerald Tanner, American author and activist (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Al Oerter, American discus thrower (b. 1936)
• 2007 » Chris Mainwaring, Australian footballer and journalist (b. 1965)
• 2007 » Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and composer (b. 1928)