Genealogy Van Loon » Cornelis Arie LANDSMEER (1903-1954)

Day of death January 3, 1954

• The temperature on January 3, 1954 was between -0.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
  • April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
  • May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
  • September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
  • November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
  • November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1956 » Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Eric P. Kelly, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1884)