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Day of marriage January 9, 1947

• The temperature on January 9, 1947 was between -1.0 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
  • October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death April 11, 1992

• The temperature on April 11, 1992 was between 1.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
  • April 17 » The Katina P is deliberately run aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
  • June 15 » The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
  • September 12 » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
  • September 18 » An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
  • December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Harold Ballard, Canadian businessman (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harp player (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, sculptor, and engraver (b. 1920)
• 1992 » Eve Merriam, American author and poet (b. 1916)
• 1992 » James Brown, American actor and singer (b. 1920)