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Day of marriage January 28, 1947

• The temperature on January 28, 1947 was between -12.5 °C and -4.7 °C and averaged -9.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
  • 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.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
  • November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

Day of death March 21, 1990

• The temperature on March 21, 1990 was between 11.0 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
  • January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
  • February 14 » The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
  • April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
  • May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
  • June 2 » The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (b. 1918)
• 1987 » Walter L. Gordon, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (b. 1909)
• 1991 » Vedat Dalokay, Turkish architect and politician, Mayor of Ankara (b. 1927)
• 1992 » John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)