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Day of marriage February 4, 1947

• The temperature on February 4, 1947 was between -5.2 °C and -1.3 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
  • 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.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
  • November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.

Day of death July 24, 2007

• The temperature on July 24, 2007 was between 12.5 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 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 year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 18 » A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
  • June 8 » Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MVPasha Bulker.
  • June 26 » Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
  • June 29 » Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
  • August 15 » An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
  • September 13 » The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Source: Wikipedia

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