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Day of marriage July 8, 1976

• The temperature on July 8, 1976 was between 14.3 °C and 27.9 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 14.9 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
  • January 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
  • June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
  • June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  • October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.

Day of death February 5, 2018

• The temperature on February 5, 2018 was between -2.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2018: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
  • January 16 » Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
  • February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
  • May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
  • September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
  • October 12 » Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Herman Rosenblat, Polish-American author (b. 1929)
• 2015 » K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2016 » Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)
• 2020 » Kirk Douglas, American actor (b. 1916)