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Day of death March 10, 1962

• The temperature on March 10, 1962 was between 3.4 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 9.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • July 10 » Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
  • July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
  • August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
  • August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
  • September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.

Source: Wikipedia

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