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Day of marriage February 20, 1947

• The temperature on February 20, 1947 was between -6.3 °C and -4.9 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
  • November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Day of death February 19, 2002

• The temperature on February 19, 2002 was between 4.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 9.0 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
  • February 2 » Wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
  • April 11 » The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
  • October 26 » Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
  • October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
  • October 31 » A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric (b. 1943)
• 2000 » Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Sylvia Rivera, American transgender LGBT activist (b. 1951)
• 2003 » Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)