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Day of marriage May 2, 1947

• The temperature on May 2, 1947 was between 3.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
  • November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.

Day of death July 28, 2009

• The temperature on July 28, 2009 was between 13.8 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • May 1 » Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
  • June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
  • June 21 » Greenland assumes self-rule.
  • June 28 » Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
  • September 28 » The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.
  • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
• 2007 » Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
• 2011 » Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)