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Day of marriage May 1, 1947

• The temperature on May 1, 1947 was between 4.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
  • February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
  • February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
  • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

Day of death March 24, 2014

• The temperature on March 24, 2014 was between -0.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • February 22 » President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
  • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
  • May 11 » Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
  • June 14 » A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
  • October 27 » Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)
• 2013 » Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)
• 2014 » David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)
• 2014 » John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)