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Day of marriage March 6, 1947

• The temperature on March 6, 1947 was between -2.1 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Day of death February 25, 2015

• The temperature on February 25, 2015 was between 1.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 25 » A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
  • August 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
  • November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
  • December 7 » The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2008 » Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)
• 2010 » Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)
• 2020 » Dmitry Yazov, last Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1924)