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Day of marriage May 12, 1949

• The temperature on May 12, 1949 was between 4.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
  • August 24 » The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Day of death November 1, 1993

• The temperature on November 1, 1993 was between 1.8 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
  • April 23 » Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
  • August 10 » Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 M_w  shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 M_w  event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.
  • October 7 » The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
  • December 10 » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
• 1993 » A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
• 1996 » J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)