16: The striking ban for civil servants and the railways is abolished from Dutch law. This ban was part of the
Abraham Kuyperstrangle laws of 1903.
31:
Queen Juliana announces that on April 30 she will abdicate in favor of her daughter
Beatrix who will become 42 that day.
February
29:
Vondelstraat Riots: In
Amsterdam squatter riots break out when the police tries to remove squatters from their premise at the Vondelstraat. Street brawls go on for several days.
March
3: The army removes barricades after the
mayor of Amsterdam assigns them to reconquer the Vondelstraat from the squatters.
4: Herman Bodde utters the famous words: Do we want to go to the Dam? Then we will go to the Dam. This happened during a laborers manifestation at the RAI complex in Amsterdam-South, the venue was moved there out of fear of squatter riots.
17: The Mobil unit ends the blockade at the Borsele nuclear plant.
3: It's officially announced in
Lekkerkerk that new residential neighborhood Lekkerkerk-West is built on a chemic waste dumping site. The 270 residing families are evacuated and temporarily housed elsewhere, after which the ground underneath the houses is dug up and sanitized.
21: The first angioplasty treatment takes place at the Saint Antonius Hospital in
Utrecht.
30: The abdication of
Queen Juliana in favor of her oldest daughter
Beatrix. The inauguration of Beatrix as Queen of the Netherlands is marred by large riots known as the Kroningsoproer (see
Amsterdam coronation riots).
May
8: In urban and regional
public transportation strip tickets are implemented as part of the national tariff system.
June
The
Dutch lower house asks with a motion from Jan Nico Scholten to boycott oil from
South Africa. Minister Van der Klaauw advised against the motion, and will not execute it.