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Birthday May 23, 1952

• The temperature on May 23, 1952 was between 4.9 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
  • July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
  • October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
  • October 20 » The Governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
  • November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland († 2017)
• 1951 » Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
• 1951 » Antonis Samaras, Greek economist and politician, 185th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1952 » Martin Parr, English photographer and journalist
• 1954 » Gerry Armstrong, Northern Irish international footballer, striker
• 1954 » Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer and actor