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Day of marriage January 25, 1947

• The temperature on January 25, 1947 was between -10.4 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
  • October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
  • November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

Day of death January 25, 2004

• The temperature on January 25, 2004 was between -2.4 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
  • January 14 » The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
  • March 2 » War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
  • June 11 » Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
  • August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
  • November 23 » The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2005 » Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2005 » William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)