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Day of marriage June 26, 1947

• The temperature on June 26, 1947 was between 10.5 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
  • May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
  • June 5 » Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
  • July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.

Day of death November 4, 2002

• The temperature on November 4, 2002 was between 3.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 16 » The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
  • March 27 » Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
  • May 1 » OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
  • June 13 » The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  • July 9 » The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
  • July 10 » At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2million) to Lord Thomson.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1958)
• 2003 » Charles Causley, Cornish author and poet (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Richard Wollheim, English philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Graham Payn, South African-born English actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Nadia Anjuman, Afghan journalist and poet (b. 1980)
• 2005 » Sheree North, American actress and dancer (b. 1932)