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Day of marriage September 29, 1955

• The temperature on September 29, 1955 was between 5.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  • May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
  • July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  • September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
  • December 14 » Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.

Day of death May 10, 2005

• The temperature on May 10, 2005 was between 4.2 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). 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 year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
  • May 16 » Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
  • July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • August 3 » President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • October 29 » Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
• 2008 » Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)