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Day of marriage July 26, 1951

• The temperature on July 26, 1951 was between 11.9 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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)
• 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 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 year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
  • January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
  • February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
  • February 25 » The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
  • July 10 » Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
  • December 31 » Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

Day of death August 24, 2005

• The temperature on August 24, 2005 was between 8.3 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 25 » A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
  • February 14 » Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines.
  • May 13 » Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
  • July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
  • November 9 » The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • November 23 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Wilfred Thesiger, Ethiopian-English explorer and author (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2006 » Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Aaron Russo, American director and producer (b. 1943)
• 2007 » Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)