Stamboom Kersten-Beelen (Regio Heumen-Nijmegen-Groesbeek-Schaijk) » Hendrikus Hubertus Maria van den Bogaart (1940-1954)

Day of death December 9, 1954

• The temperature on December 9, 1954 was between 4.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
  • March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
  • May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
  • August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

Source: Wikipedia

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