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Day of marriage March 2, 1957

• The temperature on March 2, 1957 was between -0.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
  • April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
  • October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
  • December 2 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.

Day of death September 8, 1993

• The temperature on September 8, 1993 was between 12.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 19.5 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
  • January 13 » Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
  • January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
  • August 20 » After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
  • September 13 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Michalis Kounelis, Greek violinist (b. 1928)
• 1999 » Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)