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Day of marriage January 5, 1948

• The temperature on January 5, 1948 was between 4.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • January 17 » The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
  • January 21 » The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Québec Flag Day.
  • 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 12 » Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
  • May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
  • September 18 » Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

Day of death September 7, 2006

• The temperature on September 7, 2006 was between 12.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
  • March 7 » The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
  • April 14 » Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in Jama Masjid, Delhi injure 13 people.
  • July 6 » The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
  • December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
  • December 28 » War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Hiroshi Takase, Japanese cinematographer (b. 1955)
• 2008 » Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Gregory Mcdonald, American author (b. 1937)
• 2008 » Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (b. 1931)
• 2008 » Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1948)