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Day of marriage December 23, 1960

• The temperature on December 23, 1960 was between 1.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
  • January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
  • March 5 » Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
  • April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
  • November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
  • December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.

Day of death January 27, 2008

• The temperature on January 27, 2008 was between 7.6 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
  • May 28 » The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
  • June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
  • September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
  • November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
  • December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Source: Wikipedia

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