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Day of marriage September 14, 1956

• The temperature on September 14, 1956 was between 8.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
  • May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
  • July 13 » The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
  • September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
  • October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
  • November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.

Day of death May 20, 1997

• The temperature on May 20, 1997 was between 11.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
  • April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
  • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
• 2000 » Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)