More like a forest than a tree! » Kathleen ROSE (1943-2018)

Day of marriage February 18, 1966

• The temperature on February 18, 1966 was between -11.2 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -4.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
  • March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
  • March 16 » Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle.
  • June 13 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
  • November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

Day of death June 17, 2018

• The temperature on June 17, 2018 was between 14.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2018: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
  • January 16 » Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
  • February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
  • May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
  • May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
  • October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (b. 1973)
• 2015 » John David Crow, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920)
• 2015 » Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (b. 1937)
• 2015 » Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924)
• 2017 » Baldwin Lonsdale, president of Vanuatu (b. 1948)