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Day of marriage May 22, 1947

• The temperature on May 22, 1947 was between 8.1 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • 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.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
  • 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.
  • November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.

Day of death October 25, 2005

• The temperature on October 25, 2005 was between 13.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
  • April 23 » The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
  • April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
  • August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
  • August 18 » A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
  • December 30 » Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (b. 1944)
• 2002 » René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (b. 1925)
• 2004 » John Peel, English radio host and producer (b. 1939)