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Day of marriage August 25, 1966

• The temperature on August 25, 1966 was between 5.0 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
  • May 16 » The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
  • October 14 » The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
  • November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
  • December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.

Day of death December 31, 2008

• The temperature on December 31, 2008 was between -8.7 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
  • April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
  • 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.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
  • August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 2007 » Roy Amara, American scientific researcher (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)