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Day of marriage January 20, 1960

• The temperature on January 20, 1960 was between 0.8 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
  • April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
  • May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
  • September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

Day of death April 10, 2018

• The temperature on April 10, 2018 was between 9.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (24%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
  • January 23 » A 7.9 M_w  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
  • April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
  • October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
  • November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
  • December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

Day of cremation April 17, 2018

• The temperature on April 17, 2018 was between 4.7 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
  • August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
  • October 12 » Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  • October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
  • October 27 » A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.
  • December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Source: Wikipedia

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