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Birthday February 11, 1952

• The temperature on February 11, 1952 was between -2.3 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The partly or heavily 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 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.
  • February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
  • September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
  • December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
  • December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1953 » Jeb Bush, American banker, politician and Governor of Florida
• 1953 » Philip Anglim, American actor
• 1953 » Tom Veryzer, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1954 » Wesley Strick, American director and screenwriter
• 1956 » Didier Lockwood, French violinist († 2018)