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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.
  • February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • June 24 » The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
  • October 1 » The People's Republic of China is established.
  • November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

Day of death November 29, 2011

• The temperature on November 29, 2011 was between 4.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
  • February 19 » The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
  • March 12 » A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
  • May 1 » Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
  • May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2010 » Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician (b. 1940)
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