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Day of marriage January 2, 1971

• The temperature on January 2, 1971 was between -3.9 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
  • May 3 » Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
  • May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
  • June 7 » The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
  • November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

Day of death June 28, 2004

• The temperature on June 28, 2004 was between 8.4 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
  • March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
  • August 17 » The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
  • August 22 » Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
  • September 30 » The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat itself is retired.
  • November 11 » The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2004 » Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946)
• 2005 » Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976)
• 2006 » Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943)
• 2006 » Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919)