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Day of marriage October 23, 1947

• The temperature on October 23, 1947 was between 7.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

Day of death May 20, 2006

• The temperature on May 20, 2006 was between 11.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 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 year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
  • May 18 » The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
  • August 22 » Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
  • September 17 » Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
  • November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
  • November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

Day of burial May 26, 2006

• The temperature on May 26, 2006 was between 5.4 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 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 year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
  • June 18 » The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
  • August 4 » A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
  • August 20 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
  • October 28 » A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
  • November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
• 2009 » Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (b. 1980)