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Day of marriage May 9, 1946

• The temperature on May 9, 1946 was between 5.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 3 » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
  • March 11 » Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
  • April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • July 26 » Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
  • August 23 » Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
  • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

Day of death December 10, 1975

• The temperature on December 10, 1975 was between 3.9 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
  • April 9 » The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
  • April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
  • July 31 » The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • September 16 » Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
  • October 16 » Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1974 » Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1978 » Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1979 » Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)