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April 5, 1971Born on Tuesday April 6, 1971
- Marco BOOM, hoornaar († 1971)
- levenloos geboren zoontje († 1971)
- Edward David Lindley MEYNELL († 2005)
- James Lee Penn [Wk], Greensburg, Indiana († 1971)
Died on Tuesday April 6, 1971
- August Goetschalckx (71)
- Carel Christiaan Wijnbergen (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Albert de Bruin (52)
- Adrianus Jan UDO (78), =actedate Rotterdam (NL/ZH)
- Andries van der Pasch (92), Boxtel, Nederland
- Albert de Bruin (52), Ermelo
- Antoinetta Petronella Beijerinck (79), Katwijk
- Jannetje Sloesarwij (91), Utrecht (Tolsteeg)
- Anna Tjeerdstra (83), Drachten
- Amand Luciaan MOERMAN (65), Gent
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 6, 1971 at Delpher
- Amigoe di Curacao : weekblad voor de Curacaosche eilanden
- De waarheid
- Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad
- Nederlands dagblad : gereformeerd gezinsblad / hoofdred. P. Jongeling ... [et al.]
- Limburgsch dagblad
- Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland
- De Telegraaf
- De tijd : dagblad voor Nederland
- Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
Born on April 6
- 1969 » Bison Dele, American basketball player († 2002)
- 1969 » Bret Boone, American baseball player and manager
- 1969 » Paul Rudd, American actor
- 1969 » Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver
- 1969 » Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist
- 1970 » Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
- 1970 » Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach
- 1970 » Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1972 » Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish director and screenwriter
- 1972 » Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player and sportscaster
Died on April 6
- 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
- 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
- 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
- 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
- 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
- 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
- 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
- 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
- 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)
Names that were popular for boys in 1971
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Maria
- Peter
- Willem
- Hendrik
- Robert
- Johan
- Pieter
- John
- Marco
- Michael
- Richard
- Alexander
- Petrus
Names that were popular for girls in 1971
- Maria
- Johanna
- Sandra
- Elisabeth
- Cornelia
- Wilhelmina
- Marie
- Anna
- Monique
- Adriana
- Catharina
- Petronella
- Ann
- Hendrika
- Esther
- Lynn
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1971
- 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.
- The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
- February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- August 15 » President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
- October 28 » Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
- November 6 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
- November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
The weather on Tuesday April 6, 1971
The temperature on April 6, 1971 was between 5.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI