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Day of marriage August 14, 1947

• The temperature on August 14, 1947 was between 12.3 °C and 27.9 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (87%). 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)
• 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.
  • February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • 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 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

Day of death August 22, 2014

• The temperature on August 22, 2014 was between 10.6 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 22 » President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
  • April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
  • May 5 » Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
  • June 14 » A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • December 28 » Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

Source: Wikipedia

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