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Day of marriage April 17, 1947

• The temperature on April 17, 1947 was between 5.3 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • 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.
  • August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
  • 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.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

Day of death May 24, 2018

• The temperature on May 24, 2018 was between 13.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2018: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
  • January 23 » A 7.9 M_w  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
  • February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
  • March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
  • September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
  • November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
  • December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962)
• 2015 » Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
• 2015 » Tanith Lee, English author (b. 1947)
• 2018 » Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler (b. 1929)
• 2018 » John Bain (TotalBiscuit), English gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984)