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Day of marriage October 22, 1949

• The temperature on October 22, 1949 was between 5.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
  • May 20 » In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • June 24 » The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
  • July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.

Day of death October 17, 2012

• The temperature on October 17, 2012 was between 7.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.
  • February 23 » A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
  • June 22 » Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
  • June 24 » Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
  • July 12 » A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
  • November 24 » A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2011 » Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2012 » Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
• 2012 » Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)