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Day of marriage July 30, 1953

• The temperature on July 30, 1953 was between 10.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

Day of death June 24, 1981

• The temperature on June 24, 1981 was between 9.2 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • June 16 » US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
  • August 3 » Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
  • October 6 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
  • October 20 » Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
  • November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
  • December 15 » A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1980 » V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (b. 1962)