Clarke Family Tree » Edith Joan Walker (1915-1953)

Day of death January 29, 1953

• The temperature on January 29, 1953 was between 7.8 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
  • September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • 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.
  • December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Harry Hopkins, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1956 » H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Winifred Brunton, South African painter and illustrator (b. 1880)