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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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
  • November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
  • November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

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.
  • April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
  • July 15 » A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
  • July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
  • October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
  • October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
  • October 31 » During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist (b. 1906)
• 2014 » John S. Waugh, American chemist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2014 » John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Noella Leduc, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2014 » Pete Ladygo, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2014 » U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)