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Day of marriage December 16, 1947

• The temperature on December 16, 1947 was between 5.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
  • 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 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • 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 March 10, 1974

• The temperature on March 10, 1974 was between -0.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
  • June 26 » The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
  • July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
  • August 15 » Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
  • September 15 » Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
  • November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1907)