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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.
  • 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.
  • June 5 » Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
  • November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

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.
  • March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
  • April 15 » In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians were gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
  • May 5 » Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
  • July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
  • October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.

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)