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Day of marriage August 12, 1953

• The temperature on August 12, 1953 was between 15.3 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
  • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.

Day of death April 6, 2008

• The temperature on April 6, 2008 was between -1.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
  • May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
  • June 26 » A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
  • August 6 » A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
  • November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
  • December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Francis L. Kellogg, American soldier and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1977)
• 2006 » Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor and director (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Luigi Comencini, Italian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2009 » J. M. S. Careless, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1919)
• 2009 » Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1982)