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Day of marriage November 1, 1960

• The temperature on November 1, 1960 was between 6.9 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 16.8 mm of rain during 11.6 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
  • February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
  • May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
  • August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
  • August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
  • September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

Day of death December 21, 1995

• The temperature on December 21, 1995 was between -3.9 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • March 20 » The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
  • March 31 » Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club.
  • May 23 » The first version of the Java programming language is released.
  • September 28 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  • October 3 » The O. J. Simpson murder case ended with a verdict of not guilty.

Day of burial December 26, 1995

• The temperature on December 26, 1995 was between -5.3 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • June 29 » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
  • July 6 » In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
  • August 5 » Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
  • October 27 » Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
  • November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Source: Wikipedia

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