Lambert Freriks » Johan Willem van Zeist (1927-1999)

Day of marriage December 11, 1957

• The temperature on December 11, 1957 was between -0.4 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
  • March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
  • August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
  • October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
  • November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
  • November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.

Day of death September 16, 1999

• The temperature on September 16, 1999 was between 11.4 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
  • May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
  • July 5 » U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
  • July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
  • December 21 » The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Gene Nelson, American actor, dancer, and director (b. 1920)
• 1996 » McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Samuel Z. Arkoff, American producer (b. 1918)
• 2002 » James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2003 » Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (b. 1954)