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Day of marriage October 12, 1949

• The temperature on October 12, 1949 was between 8.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 8 » President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
  • June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
  • July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.

Day of death December 4, 1998

• The temperature on December 4, 1998 was between -1.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
  • February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
  • April 20 » Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
  • June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
  • October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
  • November 19 » Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5million.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)
• 1993 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Rose Bird, American academic and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (b. 1936)
• 2000 » Henck Arron, Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)