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Day of marriage May 9, 1959

• The temperature on May 9, 1959 was between 13.9 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
  • February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
  • March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
  • May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
  • June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
  • August 7 » Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Day of death May 15, 1992

• The temperature on May 15, 1992 was between 12.7 °C and 28.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • March 31 » The USSMissouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
  • April 22 » In a series of explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
  • April 29 » Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
  • May 23 » Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
  • November 20 » In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50million worth of damage.
  • December 29 » Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian ethnologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956)
• 1991 » Fritz Riess, German race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)