Genealogy Wylie » Michael Houston Whisenant (1962-1962)

Birthday June 26, 1962

• The temperature on June 26, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
  • February 10 » Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
  • April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
  • August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
  • September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
  • October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1963 » Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays, English singer-songwriter