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Day of marriage December 2, 1964

• The temperature on December 2, 1964 was between -3.5 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
  • March 6 » Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
  • June 12 » Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
  • August 5 » Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USSTiconderoga and USSConstellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • August 27 » South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
  • October 22 » An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.

Day of death December 18, 1984

• The temperature on December 18, 1984 was between 1.1 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
  • April 6 » Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
  • August 1 » Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
  • September 12 » Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
  • October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
  • November 1 » After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.

Day of burial December 20, 1984

• The temperature on December 20, 1984 was between 8.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
  • February 7 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
  • February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
  • June 5 » Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
  • July 25 » Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
  • October 11 » Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)