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Day of marriage March 5, 1960

• The temperature on March 5, 1960 was between 2.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
  • July 11 » France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
  • August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
  • September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
  • November 8 » John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States.

Day of death March 1, 2014

• The temperature on March 1, 2014 was between 4.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 15 » In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians were gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
  • July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
  • August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
  • October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

Source: Wikipedia

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