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Day of marriage December 7, 1946

• The temperature on December 7, 1946 was between 1.9 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
  • January 25 » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
  • March 24 » A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
  • May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
  • December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

Day of death February 8, 2002

• The temperature on February 8, 2002 was between 6.7 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 27 » An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
  • January 28 » TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
  • February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
  • February 12 » An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
  • April 2 » Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
  • April 11 » The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
• 2000 » Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)
• 2004 » Julius Schwartz, American journalist and author (b. 1915)