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Day of marriage May 12, 1948

• The temperature on May 12, 1948 was between 10.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
  • April 1 » Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
  • April 28 » Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
  • May 28 » Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
  • September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
  • December 26 » Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.

Day of death May 29, 1988

• The temperature on May 29, 1988 was between 10.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
  • May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
  • August 20 » Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
  • November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
• 1988 » Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
• 1989 » George C. Homans, American sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)