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Day of marriage January 31, 1968

• The temperature on January 31, 1968 was between 5.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • March 6 » Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
  • March 31 » American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
  • April 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
  • September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
  • December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

Day of death January 15, 1999

• The temperature on January 15, 1999 was between 7.3 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
  • March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
  • May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • July 20 » The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
  • July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.

Day of burial January 19, 1999

• The temperature on January 19, 1999 was between 5.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
  • May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
  • July 5 » U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
  • July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
  • November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
  • November 26 » The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1898)
• 1998 » Junior Wells, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1934)
• 1999 » Betty Box, English composer and producer (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian-Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
• 2001 » Leo Marks, English cryptographer, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920)