West-Europese adel » Frans Willem Joseph Hubert Gerhard Maria Graaf van Spee-Mirbach (1923-2000)

Day of marriage June 4, 1956

• The temperature on June 4, 1956 was between 11.2 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 9.3 hours. The almost completely overcast 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
  • March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
  • April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
  • July 26 » Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
  • October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
  • October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.

Day of death July 1, 2000

• The temperature on July 1, 2000 was between 8.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
  • June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
  • August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, created M&M's and the Mars bar (b. 1904)
• 1999 » Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (b. 1935)
• 1999 » Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)