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Day of marriage January 2, 1947

• The temperature on January 2, 1947 was between -0.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • 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.
  • August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Day of death August 12, 2016

• The temperature on August 12, 2016 was between 16.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • March 19 » An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
  • April 3 » The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
  • July 26 » The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
  • December 7 » Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
  • December 9 » President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn becomes Acting President, later declining to run for a full term.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and academic (b. 1929)
• 2015 » John Scott, English organist and conductor (b. 1956)
• 2015 » Meshulim Feish Lowy, Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1921)
• 2015 » Stephen Lewis, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2016 » Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player (b. 1958)
• 2017 » Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1942)