West-Europese adel » Birgitte Alexandra Maria van Holstein-Ledreborg (1922-2009)

Day of marriage June 9, 1947

• The temperature on June 9, 1947 was between 9.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

Day of death August 21, 2009

• The temperature on August 21, 2009 was between 13.6 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 8 » A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
  • March 23 » FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
  • April 7 » Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
  • April 7 » Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
  • June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
  • July 4 » The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.

Day of burial August 28, 2009

• The temperature on August 28, 2009 was between 10.5 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 21.5 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • January 29 » Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
  • April 4 » France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.
  • June 9 » An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
  • June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
  • June 12 » Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
  • December 30 » A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat ratna awardi (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Siobhan Dowd, British author (b. 1960)
• 2008 » Jerry Finn, American engineer and producer (b. 1969)
• 2009 » Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930)
• 2010 » Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)