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Day of marriage January 23, 1958

• The temperature on January 23, 1958 was between -5.0 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 23 » After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
  • April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
  • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
  • October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
  • December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

Day of death May 4, 1997

• The temperature on May 4, 1997 was between 12.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily 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 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 year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
  • December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
  • December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

Day of burial May 6, 1997

• The temperature on May 6, 1997 was between 2.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 17.0 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
  • April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
  • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • July 1 » China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
  • August 3 » Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
• 1993 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)