Genealogy cfmeira » Severino Marques d'Amorim (1897-1957)

Day of marriage March 4, 1955

• The temperature on March 4, 1955 was between -2.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
  • July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  • December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
  • December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

Day of death June 27, 1957

• The temperature on June 27, 1957 was between 7.1 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
  • March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
  • June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
  • October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
  • November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901)
• 1952 » Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1960 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (b. 1871)
• 1962 » Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (b. 1904)