About the day » Tuesday February 24, 1953Calender converter

• Jannetje Bakker († 2019)
• Donald Eugene Herrick, Hartford, Lyon, Kansas (USA) († 1968)
• Robert Dennis Burr, Muskegon, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Mary Getrude Lynch, Pittston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Marian Gruijters († 2002)
• Arturo Rafael Romo, Los Angeles, California († 1983)
• Michael Seago († 1990)
• Harrie de Wilde, Twello, Gelderland, Nederland († 1972)
• Larry Dwayne Bryce, Murray, Salt Lake Cnty, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Marijke van Steensel († 2015)

• Adam Dankowsky (40), Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Bruinsma (84), Ter Apelkanaal, gem. Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes de Lange (69), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna Maria Hamel (82), Breda
• Aalt van Ginkel (84), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Sprangemeijer (76)
• Adrianus Weijers (76), ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Norden (86), Putten
• Camiel Dewyse (53), Klerken
• Charles Reitzel WINKLEMAN (81), Steelton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1951 » David Ford, Northern Irish social worker and politician
• 1951 » Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
• 1951 » Derek Randall, English cricketer
• 1951 » Helen Shaver, Canadian actress and director
• 1953 » Anatoli Kozhemyakin, Soviet footballer († 1974)
• 1954 » Aurora Levins Morales, Puerto Rican Jewish writer and activist
• 1954 » Judith Ortiz Cofer, Puerto Rican American award-winning author († 2016)
• 1954 » Mike Pickering, English DJ and saxophonist
• 1954 » Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1954 » Sid Meier, Canadian-American game designer and programmer, created the Civilization series

• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)
• 1953 » Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Peter
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Margaretha
11. Yvonne
12. Petronella
13. Geertruida
14. Linda
15. Alida
16. Jacoba

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
• February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.

The temperature on February 24, 1953 was between 6.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.