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Day of marriage June 3, 1972

• The temperature on June 3, 1972 was between 9.9 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  • January 30 » Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
  • April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • June 23 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
  • October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
  • December 19 » Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

Day of death May 18, 2005

• The temperature on May 18, 2005 was between 0.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The nuclear sub USSSan Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
  • January 9 » Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
  • October 21 » Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
  • October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
  • November 9 » Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
  • December 24 » Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)