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Day of marriage September 24, 1947

• The temperature on September 24, 1947 was between 5.2 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • 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.
  • November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

Day of death November 22, 2001

• The temperature on November 22, 2001 was between 2.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • January 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
  • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
  • July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
  • September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)