Arbre Chatelain » Jean SYLVESTRE (1927-2014)

Day of marriage February 13, 1953

• The temperature on February 13, 1953 was between -2.6 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
  • February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
  • November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

Day of death October 18, 2014

• The temperature on October 18, 2014 was between 12.8 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
  • September 18 » Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
  • October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
  • October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • November 12 » The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
  • December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Edward Regan, American academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)