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Day of marriage November 22, 1947

• The temperature on November 22, 1947 was between 12.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
  • February 10 » The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
  • March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

Day of death December 4, 2008

• The temperature on December 4, 2008 was between 0.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
  • May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
  • May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
  • May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
  • September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
  • November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand soldier and author (b. 1924)
• 2006 » K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and politician, Mayor of Colombo (b. 1938)
• 2006 » Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1987)
• 2007 » Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
• 2009 » Liam Clancy, Irish singer, actor, and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 2010 » King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (b. 1937)