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| 1957 |
| | | Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC) | |
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| 1959 |
| | | A group of dancers leave the Netherlands Ballet and establish their own Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1965 |
| | | 18-year-old Dutch footballer Johann Cruyff joins Ajax, the club with which he will be associated in numerous successes | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philips and Sony jointly introduce a new device, the compact disc | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The TV reality show Big Brother, devised by John de Mol, is broadcast for the first time in the Netherlands | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize euthanasia, allowing doctors to end the life of a patient suffering 'unbearably' from a terminal condition | |
|  | ‘The right to choose a merciful death'
Wellcome Library, London
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