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Birthday August 5, 1954

• The temperature on August 5, 1954 was between 13.3 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
  • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
  • November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.

Source: Wikipedia

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