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Day of marriage December 8, 1958

• The temperature on December 8, 1958 was between 0.2 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
  • April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
  • August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
  • September 1 » Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
  • September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.

Day of death September 5, 1998

• The temperature on September 5, 1998 was between 13.8 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
  • July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
  • October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
  • November 9 » Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
  • December 6 » in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
  • December 8 » Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Leon Edel, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (b. 1922)