Dutch History Timeline (Part 8)

Events 1401 - 1,600 of 1,791

• 1953-02-01 Flooding in Netherlands kills 1,835
• 1953-05-26 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
• 1953-05-27 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

• 1953-06-09 South African premier D. F. Malan visits the Netherlands
• 1953-08-23 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
• 1953-09-28 Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954
• 1953-10-14 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
• 1954-01-23 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
• 1954-02-03 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
• 1954-04-01 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
• 1954-05-29 First of the annual Bilderberg conferences, fostering relations between Europe and North America held at Oosterbeek, Netherlands
• 1954-06-16 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
• 1954-08-10 Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
• 1954-09-05 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
• 1954-11-28 1st pro football game in The Netherlands
• 1954-12-15 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands

• 1954-12-24 Council for the Protection of Children forms in Netherlands
• 1954-12-29 Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being
• 1955-02-09 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law

• 1955-03-15 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
• 1955-03-16 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
• 1955-05-17 Dutch government of Willem Drees resigns

• 1955-09-05 Dutch magician Fred Kaps wins his 2nd FISM World Championship
• 1956-02-14 Verhoeven, Nauta and De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
• 1956-03-03 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks 20-year old world record for 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
• 1956-05-18 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1956-06-13 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrats 50/KVP 49
• 1956-06-29 Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees refuses resignation of Queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
• 1956-08-04 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
• 1956-09-13 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
• 1956-10-12 Marga Klompé becomes first Dutch women elected minister
• 1956-11-05 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
• 1956-11-27 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's "The Diary of Anne Frank" premieres in Netherlands
• 1957-01-09 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
• 1957-01-26 Dutch Pacifist Socialist Party forms
• 1957-03-17 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
• 1957-07-04 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
• 1957-07-15 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
• 1957-09-28 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels
• 1957-10-17 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed

• 1957-12-06 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
• 1958-02-07 1st showing of Dutch auto-transmission car, the DAF 600
• 1958-06-23 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
• 1958-06-30 Dutch government of Willem Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
• 1958-12-02 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
• 1958-12-03 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
• 1958-12-11 4th (last) Dutch government of Willem Drees falls
• 1958-12-12 Dutch Social Democratic Party ministers, including Prime Minister Willem Drees dismissed
• 1958-12-22 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
• 1959-02-10 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
• 1959-03-12 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
• 1959-04-11 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
• 1959-05-19 Jan de Quay becomes premier of the Netherlands

• 1959-07-22 Natural gas found at Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands
• 1959-09-21 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
• 1960-01-30 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
• 1960-03-07 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
• 1960-04-04 Oscar awarded to Dutch director Bert Haanstra for documentary "Glass"
• 1960-04-08 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties

• 1960-05-06 Students attack Dutch embassy in Jakarta
• 1960-05-24 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
• 1960-07-07 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
• 1960-08-17 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
• 1960-12-23 Jan De Quay's Dutch government falls
• 1960-12-24 Dutch bishops question papacy values
• 1961-02-02 Dutch Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
• 1961-03-06 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
• 1961-03-06 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year jubilee
• 1961-04-05 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council

• 1961-05-19 New pier opens in Scheveningen, the Netherlands
• 1961-05-30 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
• 1961-06-12 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
• 1961-11-11 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
• 1961-12-03 Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
• 1962-01-08 Dutch express train crashes into a slow commuter train, killing 93 people
• 1962-01-15 Battle of Arafura Sea: Dutch destroyers intercept and destroy three Indonesian torpedo boats attempting to land marines on the territory of Netherlands New Guinea as part of the Soviet-Indonesian Operation Trikora
• 1962-02-21 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen, Netherlands

• 1962-03-12 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
• 1962-03-21 Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
• 1962-05-12 Grevelingen dam closes in major project to protect the southwest of the Netherlands from flooding
• 1962-05-22 Netherlands telephone network becomes completely automated

• 1962-06-28 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
• 1962-07-15 Netherlands and Indonesia reach agreement over New Guinea
• 1962-08-15 Netherlands & Indonesia sign accord over New Guinea
• 1962-10-01 UN gives Netherlands control of New Guinea
• 1962-11-24 Last of Dutch military leave New Guinea
• 1962-11-28 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored

• 1962-12-31 Dutch leave New Guinea
• 1963-01-18 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
• 1963-03-13 Indonesia & Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
• 1963-06-05 Dutch Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
• 1963-06-06 Gasunie, Dutch gas and transportation company established
• 1963-06-26 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
• 1963-07-24 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
• 1963-10-10 Netherlands population hits 12,000,000
• 1963-10-24 Dutch KRO-TV shows first episode of American western series "Bonanza"

• 1963-12-02 First Dutch rocket launched, reaches height of 10 km
• 1964-01-24 Dutch comic strip "Eric de Noorman" by Hans G. Kresse ends
• 1964-07-21 Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
• 1964-08-02 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
• 1964-08-25 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
• 1964-10-01 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
• 1964-10-25 Dutchman Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
• 1965-01-18 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
• 1965-02-01 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
• 1965-02-26 Dutch government of Marijnen falls
• 1965-02-27 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
• 1965-03-10 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged
• 1965-05-26 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
• 1965-06-15 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
• 1965-06-28 Dutch Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce their engagement
• 1965-07-01 Dutch soccer clubs Sportclub Enschede & Enschedese Boys merge to form FC Twente '65 FC (2009-10 Eredivisie champions)
• 1965-12-10 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
• 1965-12-15 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
• 1965-12-17 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
• 1966-06-14 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
• 1966-08-29 Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
• 1966-09-15 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
• 1966-10-04 Dutch Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink presents New Catechism
• 1966-10-14 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
• 1966-11-21 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
• 1967-02-15 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
• 1967-03-15 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum, Netherlands
• 1967-04-04 Dutch De Young government forms
• 1967-04-21 Evangelical Broadcasting begins in Netherlands
• 1967-05-01 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
• 1967-08-14 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
• 1967-08-25 Train crash at Beesd, Netherlands: 2 die
• 1967-08-26 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
• 1967-09-04 Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5
• 1968-02-06 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
• 1968-03-01 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
• 1968-04-18 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
• 1968-04-27 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
• 1968-05-03 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
• 1968-06-14 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
• 1968-09-01 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
• 1968-10-08 Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
• 1969-01-24 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
• 1969-05-23 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
• 1969-05-30 Riots by oil workers striking against economic and racial disparities in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles spark calls for the island's independence
• 1969-06-05 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
• 1969-09-05 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
• 1969-11-24 West German President Heinemann visits The Netherlands
• 1970-01-19 Eight Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands say there should be room in the church for both married priests and celibate priests
• 1970-01-23 Member of Dutch feminist group Dolle Mina burn their bras in Amsterdam
• 1970-03-24 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
• 1970-04-25 Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus Records releases Freda Payne's signature single "Band of Gold"
• 1970-05-28 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• 1970-11-18 Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
• 1970-12-09 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
• 1971-01-26 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes
• 1971-02-27 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati
• 1971-03-23 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
• 1971-04-28 Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
• 1971-05-30 Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die
• 1971-07-06 Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands
• 1971-08-26 Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia

• 1971-12-18 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
• 1971-12-28 Hashish now falls under the Dutch Opium Law (Opiumwet)
• 1972-04-17 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
• 1972-05-17 Netherlands & People's Republic of China exchange ambassadors
• 1972-06-01 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
• 1972-07-07 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
• 1972-09-25 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
• 1973-01-05 Netherlands recognizes German DR
• 1973-02-06 40,000 civil servants demonstrate at Binnenhof in The Hague, Netherlands, against higher pension contribution
• 1973-04-09 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
• 1973-05-11 Dutch government of Uyl forms
• 1973-06-22 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
• 1973-08-03 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
• 1973-09-15 Dutch Guilder devalued by 5%
• 1973-10-23 Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands
• 1973-11-04 The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
• 1973-12-20 Dutch Antillean government of Juancho Evertsz forms
• 1974-01-07 Gasoline rationing begins in the Netherlands
• 1974-02-04 Gasoline rationing ends in the Netherlands
• 1974-02-06 Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
• 1974-04-24 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
• 1974-06-01 Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia
• 1974-07-10 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
• 1974-08-30 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
• 1974-09-01 Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
• 1974-10-31 Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison
• 1974-12-04 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims
• 1975-05-24 Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
• 1975-06-01 Cars in the Netherlands required to have seatbelts
• 1975-09-27 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain

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