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Day of marriage August 9, 1946

• The temperature on August 9, 1946 was between 11.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). 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)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
  • February 1 » Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
  • July 22 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
  • December 21 » An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.

Day of death October 29, 2008

• The temperature on October 29, 2008 was between -1.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
  • February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
  • March 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
  • September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
  • September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
  • September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2005 » Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 2005 » Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (b. 1924)
• 2008 » Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (b. 1963)
• 2011 » Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (b. 1926)