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Day of death March 24, 1947

• The temperature on March 24, 1947 was between 2.9 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)