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Day of marriage June 7, 1958

• The temperature on June 7, 1958 was between 11.8 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
  • August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
  • August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
  • December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.

Day of death October 16, 2004

• The temperature on October 16, 2004 was between 6.6 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
  • January 21 » NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
  • September 16 » Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
  • September 29 » The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
  • October 4 » SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
  • December 5 » The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)
• 2003 » László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
• 2004 » Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2006 » John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)