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Day of marriage January 20, 1949

• The temperature on January 20, 1949 was between 4.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • April 28 » The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
  • May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • June 19 » The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Speedway, where Jim Roper would win the inaugural event.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

Day of death October 29, 2002

• The temperature on October 29, 2002 was between 5.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
  • May 1 » OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
  • May 9 » The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
  • May 25 » China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
  • July 28 » Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
  • November 13 » Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (b. 1960)
• 2003 » Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (b. 1922)
• 2004 » Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (b. 1946)