Clarke Family Tree » Edward (Ted) Hewson (1912-1963)

Day of death January 20, 1963

• The temperature on January 20, 1963 was between -9 °C and -2 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  • February 8 » The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
  • August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
  • August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
  • August 22 » X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96km (67.08mi) (354,200 feet)).
  • September 4 » Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

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