Happy Birthday

Ja vrienden ja! Ik kan het bijna zelf niet geloven maar ik ben op 5/03 een verjaardag vergeten. samblogt.blogspot.com is 4 jaar oud!

Verjaardagswensen zijn welkom in de commentbox :)

Weekend Review

Het weekend was hard. Vrijdagavond onze tent gaan zetten bij de Steven, zaterdag ochtend de container gaan vullen bij de familie Mertens-Sterkendries (die hadden ne getemde beer vastgekregen om te helpen), dan gaan werken en dan aan het kampvuur gaan zitten. Dat kampvuur bij de familie Eulaers-Verbeeck was een ongezien succes: 20 mensen rond een gezellig knisperend vuurtje, gitaartje erbij... was erg leuk! Het was al een tijdje geleden sinds we nog in de tent geslapen hadden, maar het was nog even comfortabel. 's Morgens was het iets minder: zon op rond 6 uur, te warm in de tent rond 9. Met 4 uur slaap aan de ontbijttafel rond 11 uur: priceless :)
Ik heb de zondag niet veel meer uitgestoken tot mijn mama me om 12 's nachts wakker belde. Onze Stef zijne auto was aangereden in Aarschot. Een of andere klootzak was van de baan afgeweken, had de koffer geramd, een stuk van de haag meegeschept en had een vluchtmisdrijf begaan. Het was zondag mijn broer zijn verjaardag. Hij werd 22jaar. Ik kom daar aan, onze Stef was wat door elkaar geschud maar thank god niet gekwetst. Samen gewacht op de takelwagen, op de flikken, dan naar den buro en dan heb ik hem naar huis gedaan. Ik vond het nogal klote voor hem: nieuwe auto, zijne verjaardag en dan zo'n laffe daad. Shit man, ik was lastig. Dus ben ik nog een beetje in Aarschot blijven rondrijden. Ik bedoel, ge doet niet zo'n accident om dan op het gemakske naar huis te bollen. Als de vluchtmisdrijver zat was, moest hij nog in de buurt zijn. Na een paar toertjes in Aarschot had ik hem gevonden: Bordeau Renault Megane (de oude megane). De hele flank was er af. Nummerplaat genoteerd, flikken gebeld. 5 minuten later stonden ze ernaast. And justice for all. Ik hoop dat ze em diezelfde nacht nog van zijn bed gelicht hebben.

Toch nog gelukkige verjaardag kleine. Ik ben blij dat ge ongedeerd zijt.

Mijn Kristin

Is vorige week 13/8 30 jaar geworden. 'ns kijken wat er in haar geboortejaar zoals gebeurde. Afgezien van de laatste drie woorden is er weinig wat belangrijker is dan Kristin's geboorte :) A

January
January 1 – United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the International Year of the Child. Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF Concert fund.
January 1 – The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.

January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings.
January 7 – Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.
January 8 – The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, Ireland; 50 are killed.
January 9 – The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album is later released.
January 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
January 19 – Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
January 21 – Super Bowl XIII: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35–31 at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her response to the action, "I don't like Mondays," inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
January 31 – The police under directions of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of the CPM-led government of West Bengal, surround and open fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal, India. Hundreds are killed but the official government death toll is 36.[clarification needed]

February

February 1 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
February 3 – Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
February 7 – Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
February 7 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
February 10 – February 11 – The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
February 11 – Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
February 12 – Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
February 14 – Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She later reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine.
February 15 – A suspected gas explosion in a Warsaw bank kills 49.
February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
February 22 – Saint Lucia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
February 26 – A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America. [1]
February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.
February 28 – Mr. Ed, the 'talking horse' featured in the television show of the same name, dies.

March

March 1 – Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales votes against it.
March 4 – The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
March 5 – Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
March 7 – The largest Magnetar (Soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.
March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
March 13 – Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada.
March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the U.K. collapses, killing 2 workers.
March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.[1]
March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
March 26 – In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty.
March 29 – A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, causes a partial meltdown.
March 28 – In Britain, Jim Callaghan's government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election.
March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.
March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
March 31 – The last British soldier (belonging to the Royal Navy) leaves the Maltese Islands, after 179 years of presence. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
March 31 – Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

April

April 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
April 1–18 – Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria, and forget him there without food or drink.
April 1- The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
April 2 – Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
April 10 – A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 that day).
April 11 – Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) strikes Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of Budva is devastated.
April 17 – Schoolchildren in the Central African Republic are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory school uniforms. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
April 20 – President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
April 22 – The Albert Einstein Memorial is unveiled at The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
April 23 – Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.

May


May 4: ThatcherMay 1 – Greenland gets home rule.
May 4 – Conservatives win the British general election; Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
May 8 – The Manchester, England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
May 9 – A Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
May 10 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
May 21 – San Francisco gays riot after hearing the verdict for Dan White, assassin of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
May 25 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, killing 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.
May 25 – John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in America after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.

June

June 1 – The Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
June 1 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
June 1 – The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
June 2 – Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
June 3 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
June 3 – General elections are held in Italy.
June 4 – Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
June 4 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown.
June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs. It is also the first international election in history.
June 12 – Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
June 20 – A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
June 23 – Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.
June 24 – Bologna (Italy): foundation of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
June 25 – Belgium: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.

July

July 1 – Sweden outlaws corporal punishment in the home.
July 2 – The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
July 3 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.
July 9 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
July 11 – NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
July 12 – Kiribati declares independence from the United Kingdom.
July 12 – A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
July 12 – Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
July 12 – A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him.
July 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
July 19 – Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe Pageant; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.
July 19 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.
July 19 – Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal

August

August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania.
August 9 – The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
August 9 – Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is shot and killed 5 months after his arrest for quadruple murder (his killers have not yet been identified).
August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album.
August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs: Provisional Irish Republican Army members attack a British convoy at Narrow Water, County Down, killing 18 British soldiers.
August 28 – The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches 5 when Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, 83, dies in a hospital as a result of her injuries.
August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States.

September

September 1 – The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
September 7 – The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, debuts.
September 9 – The long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse begins its run.
September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
September 16 – Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.
September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
September 22 – The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
September 30 – The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).

October

October 1 – Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is established.
October 1–6 – Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy, causing interest rate fluctuations and economic recession.
October 9 – Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record 6 laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, D.C., involving many tens of thousands of people.
October 15 – Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
October 16 – A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
October 17 – 1979 World Series: The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles.
October 19 – 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.[2]
October 26 – Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jaegyu.
October 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.
October 31 – L. Lawliet, the character from the popular Manga / Anime, Death Note, is born.

November


November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
November 2 – French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
November 2 – Assata Shakur (ne' Joanne Chesimard), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, is liberated from a New York prison and soon shuttled off to Cuba where she remains under political asylum.
November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
November 5 – The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
November 7 – U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
November 9 – The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends with all 4 men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.[3]
November 9 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.[4]
November 12 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
November 16 – Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 20 – A group of 200 Juhayman al-Otaibi militants occupy Mecca's Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
November 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4 (see Foreign relations of Pakistan).
November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
November 28 – Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus (in Antarctica) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

December


December 3 – Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 3 – The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
December 6 – The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
December 9 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
December 12 – A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.
December 21 – A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.
December 24 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
December 24 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
December 26 – In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
December 27 – The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.

Undated
The One Child Policy is implemented in China in this year.
VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program.
The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.
Worldwide per capita oil production reaches an historic peak.
Rock music star Ozzy Osbourne seen his career peak, becomes the "prince of darkness".
McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in June.
Lego's golden age begins.

Wies 57

Onze pa wordt 57! Hij heeft er net een marathon in Werchter op zitten en gaat dat vandaag met het Dream Team vieren, dus we kunnen niet langskomen vanavond, dus bij deze: Gelukkige Verjaardag Papa!
Wat is er in 52 allemaal gebeurd? Hieronder de Wikipedia entry (beeld u in dat ge Guy de Pre hoort babbelen)

januari
26 - Bij heftige onlusten in Caïro vallen doden en gewonden, en worden de huizen van buitenlanders aangevallen. De Wafd-regering van Nahas Pasha kijkt toe en treedt nauwelijks op.
februari
7 - Prinses Elizabeth van het Verenigd Koninkrijk wordt beëdigd als koningin.
15 - De 6e Olympische Winterspelen worden te Oslo door prinses Ragnhild geopend. Nederland wint op deze spelen 3 zilveren medailles.
18 - Griekenland en Turkije treden toe tot de NAVO.
maart
11 - Parlementsleden van de Egyptische Wafd weigeren samen te werken met de nieuwe regering van Hilali Pasha. Omdat zij een meerderheid hebben in het parlement, zal dit door koning Farouk worden ontbonden.
14 - In Qumran onder Jericho wordt een derde grot gevonden met Dode Zeerollen.
21 - In Nederland worden de laatste doodvonnissen voltrokken die in de bijzondere rechtspleging zijn uitgesproken. De SS'er Pieters en de SD'er Albrecht worden doodgeschoten.
april
28 - Inwerkingtreding van het Vredesverdrag van San Francisco; Japan herwint zijn soevereiniteit.
mei
21 - Het Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal wordt geopend.
31 - Het sprookjesbos De Efteling in Kaatsheuvel wordt geopend.
juni
21 - De ARRA I, de eerste in Nederland gebouwde computer, wordt officieel in bedrijf gesteld.
juli
23 - In Egypte neemt het Comité van Vrije Officieren onder leiding van Gamal Abdel Nasser de macht over van de regering van Hilali Pasha. Koning Farouk wordt afgezet en formeel wordt zijn zoontje Fouad II in zijn wieg koning van Egypte.
26 - Nasser en de zijnen schuiven generaal Naguib naar voren als premier en regent.
Tijdens de Olympische Spelen in Helsinki wint Emil Zátopek voor Tsjecho-Slowakije goud op de 5000 meter, de 10.000 meter en de marathon.
Definitieve afsluiting van de Braakman, een zeearm van de Westerschelde in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
augustus
2 - In Nederland gaat het televisiebeeld tot 18 augustus op zwart wegens vakantie.
Tijdens hevige regenval wordt het anders zo pittoreske Engelse dorpje Lynmouth verzwolgen door de buiten zijn oevers tredende rivier de Lyn. Er vallen 32 slachtoffers en er zijn honderden daklozen.
september
13 - Het eerste verhaal over Jip en Janneke verschijnt in Het Parool.
oktober
3 - Eerste Britse atoomtest in Australië – hiermee wordt het Verenigd Koninkrijk de derde atoommacht, naast de Verenigde Staten (1945) en de Sovjet-Unie (1949). Frankrijk en China volgen later. In ditzelfde jaar (17 november) doen de Verenigde Staten de eerste proef met een waterstofbom, vele malen krachtiger dan de atoombom. Dit wordt het begin van een van de meest bedreigende onderdelen van de koude oorlog, de kernwapenwedloop. Eerdere pogingen om atoomwapens door een supernationale organisatie te laten beheren, lopen stuk op onderling wantrouwen van de grote mogendheden. In 1952 wordt door de VN de ontwapeningscommissie in het leven geroepen.
4 - De Brusselse Noord-Zuidverbinding is een feit. Ze wordt ingereden door Koning Boudewijn.
13 - Eerste uitzending van In Holland staat een huis, een muzikaal hoorspel over de familie Doorsnee.
25 - De Geïllustreerde Pers brengt het eerste exemplaar van het weekblad Donald Duck uit als bijlage van het damesblad Margriet. Een geniale marketing-vondst.
november
17 - Bovengenoemde Amerikaanse proef met waterstofbom.
22 - Eerste uitzending van de intocht van Sinterklaas op televisie, uitgezonden vanuit Amsterdam met J. Gajentaan als Sinterklaas.
25 - In Londen gaat het toneelstuk Mousetrap van Agatha Christie in première. Het zal tot maart 1974 onafgebroken worden gespeeld, daarmee de langst lopende toneelvoorstelling ter wereld.
december
4 - Vanaf 4 december hangt er lange tijd boven Londen een zeer dichte mist die uiteindelijk aan 4000 mensen het leven kost. Hierna worden er maatregelen getroffen om deze smog tot het verleden te laten behoren en van Londen een schonere stad te maken.
5 - De eerste keer dat Sinterklaas op de Nederlandse televisie wordt ontvangen. Presentator is Mies Bouwman die deze taak vervult tot 1973.
26 december - Uit de Koepelgevangenis in Breda ontsnappen met behulp van buitenstaanders zeven oorlogsmisdadigers die diezelfde avond nog in de omgeving van Berg en Dal de grens naar West-Duitsland weten over te komen. Het gaat om: Herbertus Bikker, Sander Borgers, Klaas Carel Faber, Jacob de Jonge, Willem van der Neut, Willem Polak en Antoine Touseul.
zonder datum
Nelson Mandela opent in Johannesburg een advocatenkantoor voor niet-blanke Zuid-Afrikanen.
Opening van het hoofdkwartier van de Verenigde Naties in New York City.
De Europese Gemeenschap voor Kolen en Staal (de EGKS) is opgericht.
Griekenland en Turkije worden lid van de NAVO.
Ventris ontcijfert het Lineair B.

[bewerken] Muziek
De volgende platen worden grote hits: Doris Day - A Guy Is A Guy, Eddy Christiani - Spring Maar Achterop, Heleentje van Capelle - Naar De Speeltuin (opgenomen in 1951), Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Kilima Hawaiians - Blume Von Hawaii, Luis Mariano - Mexico, Vera Lynn - From The Time You Say Goodbye.