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Day of marriage May 2, 1952

• The temperature on May 2, 1952 was between 10.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  • March 21 » Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
  • September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
  • November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
  • December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.

Day of death November 26, 1952

• The temperature on November 26, 1952 was between -3.8 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
  • July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
  • August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
  • December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
  • December 5 » Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1950 » Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (b. 1865)
• 1954 » Bill Doak, American baseball player and coach (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1875)