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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.
  • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
  • November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

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.
  • May 18 » At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • October 3 » Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
  • November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
  • December 4 » A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
  • December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

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)