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Day of marriage June 27, 1946

• The temperature on June 27, 1946 was between 13.3 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 1 » The Bank of England is nationalised.
  • 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.
  • April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • June 18 » Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
  • August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

Day of death May 25, 2004

• The temperature on May 25, 2004 was between 5.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 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 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.
  • March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
  • April 22 » Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
  • April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
  • May 15 » Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
  • June 8 » The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
  • November 23 » The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Graham Kennedy, Australian television host and actor (b. 1934)
• 2005 » Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer and director (b. 1936)
• 2005 » Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
• 2005 » Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)