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Day of marriage November 27, 1947

• The average temperature on November 27, 1947 was 3.3 °C. There was 13.7 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • 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 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

Day of death January 31, 1994

• The temperature on January 31, 1994 was between 3.9 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that they were both taking part in.
  • May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
  • May 21 » The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
  • August 12 » Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
  • September 12 » Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
  • November 22 » The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
• 1995 » George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 » John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and trainer, co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)