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Day of marriage July 2, 1965

• The temperature on July 2, 1965 was between 6.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
  • March 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
  • April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
  • May 18 » Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
  • October 17 » The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
  • December 22 » In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.

Day of death February 23, 2015

• The temperature on February 23, 2015 was between 2.7 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
  • May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
  • September 14 » The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
  • October 29 » China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.

Day of burial February 28, 2015

• The temperature on February 28, 2015 was between -0.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
  • May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
  • July 20 » A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
  • October 31 » Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
  • November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
  • December 7 » The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

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