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Day of marriage May 16, 1952

• The temperature on May 16, 1952 was between 9.0 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
  • February 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
  • September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
  • October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
  • December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

Day of death December 2, 2004

• The temperature on December 2, 2004 was between -2.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 13 » The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
  • February 29 » Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
  • March 19 » March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China(Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian was shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
  • July 16 » Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  • November 21 » The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
  • November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Alan Davidson, British soldier, historian, and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian convicted drug trafficker (b. 1980)
• 2005 » William P. Lawrence, American admiral and pilot (b. 1930)