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Day of marriage May 8, 1947

• The temperature on May 8, 1947 was between 10.6 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
  • February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • 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.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
  • October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.

Day of death July 14, 2008

• The temperature on July 14, 2008 was between 7.7 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). 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 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 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
  • May 12 » U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
  • May 30 » Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
  • June 11 » The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
  • August 8 » A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
  • December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
• 2003 » François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Cicely Saunders, English hospice founder (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)