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Day of marriage December 11, 1946

• The temperature on December 11, 1946 was between -0.5 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
  • May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
  • August 1 » Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
  • October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
  • December 21 » An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.

Day of death August 11, 1975

• The temperature on August 11, 1975 was between 15.1 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • April 4 » Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
  • May 30 » European Space Agency is established.
  • June 5 » The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
  • June 24 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
  • October 14 » An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
  • October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)
• 1979 » J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
• 1980 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)