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Day of marriage March 25, 1948

• The temperature on March 25, 1948 was between -1.6 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
  • May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
  • June 22 » King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
  • September 14 » The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
  • September 15 » The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
  • December 28 » The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

Day of death July 28, 2003

• The temperature on July 28, 2003 was between 10.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (65%). 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • February 10 » France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
  • March 1 » The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
  • July 7 » NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
  • September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
  • October 17 » Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
  • October 26 » The Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000km), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)