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Day of marriage August 29, 1946

• The temperature on August 29, 1946 was between 10.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
  • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
  • December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
  • December 21 » An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.

Day of death April 30, 1999

• The temperature on April 30, 1999 was between 3.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (93%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
  • March 24 » Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
  • July 20 » The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
  • December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2002 » Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, German philanthropist, founded the Gründerzeit Museum (b. 1928)
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