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Day of marriage April 22, 1948

• The temperature on April 22, 1948 was between 10.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
  • May 26 » The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
  • June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
  • September 18 » Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
  • October 28 » Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
  • November 1 » Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.

Day of death July 7, 2004

• The temperature on July 7, 2004 was between 10.4 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  • July 4 » Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
  • July 5 » The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.
  • August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
  • August 22 » Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
  • November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Source: Wikipedia

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