The Brown Tree » William Joseph BEST (1897-1952)
Personal data William Joseph BEST
Source 1Source 2- He was born in the year 1897 in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- He died on October 30, 1952 in Kermit, Winkler, Texas, USA, he was 55 years old.
- A child of George BEST and Jane SLOAN
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Historical events
Day of death October 30, 1952
- The temperature on October 30, 1952 was between 6.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
- 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 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
- 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.
Same birth/death day
- 1942 » Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and stockbroker, co-founder of Buckmaster & Moore (b. 1872)
- 1943 » Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American actor and director (b. 1873)
- 1957 » Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1880)
- 1961 » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
- 1963 » U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
- 1965 » Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P5084.php : accessed May 9, 2025), "William Joseph BEST (1897-1952)".