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Birthday May 26, 1949

• The temperature on May 26, 1949 was between 7.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  • June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
  • October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Anne McGuire, Scottish educator and politician
• 1949 » Hank Williams Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Jeremy Corbyn, British journalist and politician
• 1949 » Pam Grier, American actress
• 1949 » Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
• 1949 » Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer, developed the first wiki