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Day of marriage September 21, 1954

• The temperature on September 21, 1954 was between 9.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
  • April 7 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
  • April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

Day of death March 1, 2007

• The temperature on March 1, 2007 was between 5.1 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 16.1 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 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 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
  • August 3 » Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
  • August 8 » An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
  • September 10 » Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
  • November 23 » MSExplorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
  • December 5 » Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Jack Wild, English actor (b.1952)
• 2006 » Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
• 2010 » Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977)
• 2012 » Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1969)
• 2012 » Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b. 1932)