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Day of marriage March 28, 1946

• The temperature on March 28, 1946 was between 6.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 22 » Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • January 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
  • March 19 » French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
  • April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
  • December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

Day of death August 9, 2002

• The temperature on August 9, 2002 was between 13.3 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
  • March 27 » Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
  • May 28 » The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
  • September 9 » The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.
  • October 12 » Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
  • November 19 » The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Paul Samson, English guitarist (b. 1953)
• 2003 » Gregory Hines, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2003 » R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)