Nieuwenhout Noord-Nederland » Dirk Nieuwenhout (1933-1996)

Day of marriage December 23, 1959

• The temperature on December 23, 1959 was between 2.9 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
  • September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
  • November 2 » Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
  • November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
  • November 23 » French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".

Day of death June 3, 1996

• The temperature on June 3, 1996 was between 7.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
  • February 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
  • May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
  • July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
  • July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
  • November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1942)
• 1992 » Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Puig Aubert, German-French rugby player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)