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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.
  • 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.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

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.
  • January 18 » A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
  • February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • March 8 » Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
  • June 27 » U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
  • June 29 » Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Peron is terminally ill.
  • July 20 » Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.

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)