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Day of marriage August 10, 1949

• The temperature on August 10, 1949 was between 9.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 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)
• 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 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • September 17 » The Canadian steamship SSNoronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
  • October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
  • December 13 » The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

Day of death October 5, 2006

• The temperature on October 5, 2006 was between 10.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 10 » The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
  • May 12 » Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
  • May 27 » The 6.4 M_w  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
  • August 25 » Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
  • December 5 » Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
  • 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

• 2003 » Dan Snyder, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1978)
• 2003 » Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist, director, and producer (b. 1957)
• 2004 » Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2004 » William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Antonio Peña, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (b. 1953)