From Castles to America » Starr Lloyd (Starr Lloyd) Smith Jr. (1922-1991)

Day of marriage June 24, 1965

• The temperature on June 24, 1965 was between 11.4 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • June 9 » The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
  • July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
  • August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
  • September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
  • September 17 » The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
  • November 27 » Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

Day of death March 29, 1991

• The temperature on March 29, 1991 was between -0.1 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • April 10 » A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
  • August 20 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • November 7 » Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
  • November 12 » Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
  • November 18 » Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
  • December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1914)
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• 1991 » Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Paul Henreid, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 » Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
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