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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.
  • January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
  • January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
  • April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
  • May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
  • October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
  • December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

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 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.
  • February 2 » Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
  • March 19 » March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China(Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian was shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
  • September 29 » The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
  • November 22 » The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
  • December 20 » A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.

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)