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Day of marriage April 22, 1947

• The temperature on April 22, 1947 was between 6.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
  • November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death May 5, 1997

• The temperature on May 5, 1997 was between 11.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
  • January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

Day of burial May 9, 1997

• The temperature on May 9, 1997 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
  • May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
  • May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • September 3 » Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
  • October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)
• 1995 » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2000 » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)