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Day of marriage May 8, 1947

• The temperature on May 8, 1947 was between 10.6 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
  • November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
  • November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.

Day of death August 19, 1998

• The temperature on August 19, 1998 was between 7.5 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
  • March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
  • May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
  • May 21 » In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
  • May 30 » Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
  • June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)