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Day of marriage July 31, 1947

• The temperature on July 31, 1947 was between 12.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
  • March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
  • November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.

Day of death December 5, 2014

• The temperature on December 5, 2014 was between 1.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • July 15 » A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
  • October 27 » Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
  • November 12 » The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
  • December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

Day of burial December 10, 2014

• The temperature on December 10, 2014 was between 4.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
  • March 27 » Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
  • July 15 » A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
  • December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917)
• 2014 » Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish hurdler and politician (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Fabiola, Queen of Belgium (b. 1928)
• 2014 » Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2014 » Talât Sait Halman, Turkish poet, translator, and historian (b. 1931)