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Day of marriage August 30, 1962

• The temperature on August 30, 1962 was between 4.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
  • August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
  • October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
  • October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
  • October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
  • December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

Day of death October 9, 2001

• The temperature on October 9, 2001 was between 12.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
  • September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
  • December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
• 2000 » David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 » Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)