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Day of marriage October 8, 1947

• The temperature on October 8, 1947 was between 9.4 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 19.9 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
  • November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

Day of death November 25, 2010

• The temperature on November 25, 2010 was between 0.1 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 27 » An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
  • June 24 » Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
  • July 25 » WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
  • August 5 » Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
  • September 2 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
  • December 15 » A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2010 » Bernard Matthews, English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (b. 1930)
• 2010 » C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Peter Christopherson, English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (b. 1955)
• 2011 » Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 2011 » Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and coach (b. 1942)