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Day of marriage April 30, 1954

• The temperature on April 30, 1954 was between -2.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
  • July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
  • August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
  • September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
  • October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

Day of death January 27, 2010

• The temperature on January 27, 2010 was between -11.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • June 24 » At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
  • July 23 » English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
  • July 29 » An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
  • August 3 » Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
  • August 8 » China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
  • September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2009 » John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
• 2009 » R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (b. 1922)
• 2010 » J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2011 » Charlie Callas, American comedian and musician (b. 1927)