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Day of marriage December 27, 1951

• The temperature on December 27, 1951 was between 1.9 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
  • February 25 » The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
  • April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
  • April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
  • September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
  • December 24 » Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.

Day of death April 20, 2003

• The temperature on April 20, 2003 was between 4.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • January 18 » A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
  • March 12 » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
  • August 14 » A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
  • August 22 » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
  • October 4 » The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
  • November 12 » Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2003 » Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 2004 » Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904)