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Day of marriage May 16, 1947

• The temperature on May 16, 1947 was between 9.6 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). 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 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.
  • July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
  • October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
  • October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Day of death November 5, 1994

• The temperature on November 5, 1994 was between 10.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3 » More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
  • February 22 » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
  • September 8 » USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
  • October 1 » Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
  • November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
  • November 22 » The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (b. 1923)
• 1992 » Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (b. 1912)
• 1992 » Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)