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Day of marriage May 6, 1954

• The temperature on May 6, 1954 was between 7.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
  • May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
  • May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
  • September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
  • September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
  • October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

Day of death February 22, 2014

• The temperature on February 22, 2014 was between 4.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
  • March 27 » Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
  • June 27 » At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • July 17 » A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
  • December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
• 2014 » Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2014 » Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (b. 1940)