Mann Spencer Tree » Mary Frary (1636-1960)

Day of death November 5, 1960

• The temperature on November 5, 1960 was between 6.5 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • July 11 » France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
  • August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
  • September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
  • November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
  • December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

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