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Day of marriage August 15, 1962

• The temperature on August 15, 1962 was between 14.2 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
  • July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
  • August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
  • August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
  • December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

Day of death July 13, 2007

• The temperature on July 13, 2007 was between 16.9 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia killing all 102 people on board.
  • March 1 » Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
  • May 3 » The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
  • June 27 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
  • September 20 » Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
  • October 22 » A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Red Buttons, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Michael Reardon, American mountaineer (b. 1965)
• 2008 » Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1932)
• 2010 » George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930)
• 2010 » Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)