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Birthday May 17, 1959

• The temperature on May 17, 1959 was between 9.9 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
  • January 3 » Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
  • February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
  • February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
  • August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
  • September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player († 2012)
• 1958 » Paul Di'Anno, English rock singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and coach
• 1960 » Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter, actor, and producer
• 1960 » Simon Fuller, English talent manager and producer, created the Idols series
• 1961 » Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer