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Day of marriage December 27, 1960

• The temperature on December 27, 1960 was between -0.3 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly 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 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
  • April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
  • May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
  • May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
  • August 6 » Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  • October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

Day of death February 4, 2008

• The temperature on February 4, 2008 was between 3.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly 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 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 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
  • June 11 » The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • July 26 » Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
  • August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
  • September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
• 2007 » José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2008 » Augusta Dabney, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Stefan Meller, Polish academic and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)