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Day of marriage June 2, 1962

• The temperature on June 2, 1962 was between 1.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
  • July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
  • September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
  • September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
  • October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
  • November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

Day of death July 10, 2015

• The temperature on July 10, 2015 was between 6.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • February 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
  • May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
  • October 14 » A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
  • November 24 » A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
  • December 9 » The start of the thirty-sixth GCC summit in Riyadh business.
  • December 31 » A fire broke out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates located near the Burj Khalifa two hours before the fireworks display was due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

Source: Wikipedia

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