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Day of marriage October 7, 1947

• The temperature on October 7, 1947 was between 3.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
  • August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
  • November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Day of death December 30, 2011

• The temperature on December 30, 2011 was between 3.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 19 » The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
  • April 11 » An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
  • July 13 » Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
  • September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
  • November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
  • December 13 » A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Bobby Farrell, Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba (b. 1949)
• 2011 » Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971)
• 2012 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)