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Day of marriage December 6, 1968

• The temperature on December 6, 1968 was between -0.7 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
  • February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
  • February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
  • February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
  • May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
  • October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of death August 19, 2013

• The temperature on August 19, 2013 was between 10.3 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  • June 5 » A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
  • July 6 » A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
  • July 18 » The Government of Detroit, with up to $20billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
  • July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
  • November 17 » Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.

Day of cremation August 24, 2013

• The temperature on August 24, 2013 was between 15.2 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 25 » At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
  • April 19 » Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
  • June 27 » NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
  • July 2 » The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
  • August 14 » UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
  • September 24 » A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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