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Day of marriage May 29, 1947

• The temperature on May 29, 1947 was between 10.4 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
  • October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

Day of death November 15, 2004

• The temperature on November 15, 2004 was between 3.3 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
  • March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
  • May 14 » Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.
  • May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
  • September 8 » NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
  • October 29 » The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
• 2004 » John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)