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Day of marriage August 27, 1946

• The temperature on August 27, 1946 was between 8.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 3 » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
  • January 25 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
  • March 28 » Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
  • May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • 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.
  • November 3 » The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.

Day of death August 19, 2004

• The temperature on August 19, 2004 was between 15.5 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
  • January 8 » The RMSQueen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
  • February 18 » Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
  • March 22 » Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
  • April 6 » Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
  • April 21 » Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)