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Day of marriage May 3, 1947

• The temperature on May 3, 1947 was between 6.7 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • 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.
  • August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
  • December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

Day of death January 23, 2001

• The temperature on January 23, 2001 was between 4.8 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
  • February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
  • July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
  • November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
  • December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Jay Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded the Hyatt Corporation (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (b. 1936)
• 2002 » Paul Aars, American race car driver (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (b. 1930)
• 2002 » Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)