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Day of marriage July 11, 1949

• The temperature on July 11, 1949 was between 11.0 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
  • November 3 » Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.

Day of death March 6, 1997

• The temperature on March 6, 1997 was between 2.7 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
  • April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • May 19 » The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
  • June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
  • August 31 » Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• 1997 » Ursula Torday, English author (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933)
• 2000 » John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)