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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.
  • April 20 » The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
  • July 4 » After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
  • July 15 » State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • July 26 » Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
  • August 16 » The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
  • December 19 » Start of the First Indochina War.

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.
  • April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
  • May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
  • June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
  • July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
  • November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
  • November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.

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)