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Day of marriage January 14, 1961

• The temperature on January 14, 1961 was between 1.9 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
  • March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
  • March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
  • July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
  • September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
  • November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Day of death November 21, 2009

• The temperature on November 21, 2009 was between 9.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
  • February 20 » Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
  • April 30 » Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
  • August 19 » A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
  • September 9 » The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
  • December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Tom Johnson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2009 » Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926)
• 2010 » David Nolan, American activist and politician (b. 1943)
• 2010 » Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter and author, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (b. 1917)
• 2010 » Norris Church Mailer, American author (b. 1949)