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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.
  • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
  • May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
  • September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
  • October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.

Day of death January 2, 2015

• The temperature on January 2, 2015 was between 4.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • February 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
  • February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
  • September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
  • October 10 » Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 102 and injure 400.
  • October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
  • November 12 » Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
• 2014 » Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2016 » Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 2016 » Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)
• 2016 » Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959)