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Day of marriage May 16, 1947

• The temperature on May 16, 1947 was between 9.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • 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.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.

Day of death March 15, 1969

• The temperature on March 15, 1969 was between -0.4 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
  • July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
  • September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
  • October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
  • December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

Day of burial March 20, 1969

• The temperature on March 20, 1969 was between -0.5 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
  • June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
  • September 1 » A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
  • November 20 » Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
  • November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
  • December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
• 1972 » Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1910)