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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.
  • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
  • December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

Day of death February 8, 2007

• The temperature on February 8, 2007 was between -2.7 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
  • April 27 » Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
  • May 5 » Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
  • June 19 » The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
  • September 20 » Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
  • October 2 » President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Elton Dean, English saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1945)
• 2006 » Thierry Fortineau, French actor (b. 1953)
• 2007 » Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 » Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Ruby Garrard Woodson, American educator and cultural historian (b. 1931)