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Day of marriage December 28, 1968

• The temperature on December 28, 1968 was between -5.5 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
  • August 13 » Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
  • November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.

Day of death November 21, 2009

• The temperature on November 21, 2009 was between 9.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.
  • April 4 » France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.
  • June 12 » Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
  • June 21 » Greenland assumes self-rule.
  • July 5 » The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
  • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Tom Johnson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2009 » Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926)
• 2010 » David Nolan, American activist and politician (b. 1943)
• 2010 » Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter and author, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (b. 1917)
• 2010 » Norris Church Mailer, American author (b. 1949)