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Birthday July 3, 1961

• The temperature on July 3, 1961 was between 15.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
  • May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
  • May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
  • September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
  • November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

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