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Day of death January 18, 1969

• The temperature on January 18, 1969 was between 2.7 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
  • July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
  • July 21 » Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
  • October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
  • November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
  • December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

Day of cremation January 23, 1969

• The temperature on January 23, 1969 was between 4.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
  • September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
  • September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
  • November 14 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
  • November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
  • December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1970 » David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
• 1971 » Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (b. 1924)