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** and Amsterdam
** Life by Matthias Nethenus prefixed to collected edition of Latin works ( 5 vols, Amsterdam, 1658 );
** The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York ( later King James II ) and being renamed New York in 1664.
** 22-year-old Gerard Adriaan Heineken buys the brewery ' De Hooiberg ' (" The Haystack ") in Amsterdam.
** The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; 43 are killed, many more injured.
** The " tea house " Mellow Yellow opens on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.
** Rembrandt's painting " The Night Watch " is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
** The first eleven Quaker settlers arrive in New Amsterdam ( later New York ) and are allowed to practice their faith.
** In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.
** Die Goede Oude Tyd, by Anton Pieck and Leonhard Huizinga, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappy, Amsterdam, 1980, page 31.
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