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Day of marriage April 28, 1949

• The temperature on April 28, 1949 was between 4.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. 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.
  • January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
  • April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
  • May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
  • September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
  • 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 June 25, 2017

• The temperature on June 25, 2017 was between 15.4 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2017: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
  • June 3 » London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.
  • June 5 » Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.
  • June 14 » London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
  • July 28 » Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges.
  • August 25 » Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125billion in damage.
  • December 10 » ISIL is defeated in Iraq.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Nigel Calder, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1940)
• 2015 » Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Adam Small, South African writer of apartheid-period (b. 1936)
• 2018 » David Goldblatt, South African photographer of apartheid-period (b. 1930)
• 2018 » Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and reality television personality (b. 1941)