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Day of marriage March 15, 1947

• The temperature on March 15, 1947 was between -3.9 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
  • 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.

Day of death April 2, 2011

• The temperature on April 2, 2011 was between 9.0 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
  • March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
  • May 13 » Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
  • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  • September 29 » The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
  • November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2009 » Albert Sanschagrin, Canadian bishop (b. 1911)
• 2010 » Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (b. 1970)
• 2011 » John C. Haas, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican sculptor and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Jesús Aguilarte, Venezuelan captain and politician (b. 1959)
• 2012 » Mauricio Lasansky, American graphic designer and academic (b. 1914)