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Day of marriage April 24, 1947

• The temperature on April 24, 1947 was between 7.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death September 12, 2009

• The temperature on September 12, 2009 was between 8.4 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.
  • April 10 » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
  • June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
  • June 10 » James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
  • June 28 » Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
  • July 5 » The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2008 » Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 2008 » David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1962)
• 2009 » Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2009 » Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)