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Day of marriage May 3, 1947

• The temperature on May 3, 1947 was between 6.7 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
  • April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
  • 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 December 3, 2006

• The temperature on December 3, 2006 was between 6.9 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
  • June 3 » The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
  • August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
  • November 15 » Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
  • December 5 » Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
  • December 11 » The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2004 » Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2007 » James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 » Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923)