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1995 Death - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75

1994 Death - Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Netherlands welfare worker, dies at 74

1994 Death - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38

1993 Death - AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78

1993 Event - Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire

1993 Death - Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61

1992 Event - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival

1991 Death - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies

1991 Event - Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname

1991 Death - Cornelis Z. Forster, Suriname granman/gaanman, dies

1990 Death - Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies

1989 Death - Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies

1989 Event - Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173

1989 Death - Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies

1989 Death - Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies

1988 Death - Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist

1988 Event - Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

1987 Event - Suriname constitution ratified

1986 Event - Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1986 Event - Suriname government proclaims gold purification

1986 Event - Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

1983 Death - Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide

1982 Event - Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents

1982 Death - Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered

1982 Death - Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered

1982 Death - Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered

1982 Death - Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Death - Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered

1982 Death - John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered

1982 Death - Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Death - Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered

1982 Death - Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Death - Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered

1982 Event - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1982 Death - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname Sergeant-major, executed

1982 Event - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

1982 Event - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands

1982 Event - Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees

1981 Death - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered

1981 Event - Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker

1980 Event - Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted

1980 Event - Miltary coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

1980 Event - Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname

1977 Birthday - Latoya Warning, Suriname 4th Miss Teenager 1993

1976 Birthday - Mike Ferrier, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, FC Volendam, Salernitana

1975 Event - Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)

1975 Birthday - Raymond Graanoogst, Suriname/Dutch soccer player for the FC Utrecht

1974 Death - Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57

1974 Birthday - Harvey Esajas, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1974 Birthday - Gregory Playfair, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, PSV

1973 Event - Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair

1973 Event - Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

1972 Birthday - Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju 1993

1971 Birthday - Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host

1971 Birthday - Ulrich van Gobbel, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1970 Birthday - Dean Gorre, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1970 Death - "Jopie" Pengel, Johan A, premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54

1970 Death - Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies

1969 Event - Suriname government of Pengel resigns

1968 Event - University of Suriname opens

1967 Birthday - Anthony Nesty, swimmer, won Suriname's 1st gold olympic medal

1965 Event - H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname

1964 Birthday - Florence Gopi, Suriname radio-broadcaster, KBC-Metro Bolmer

1964 Event - Suriname governor A Currie resigns

1964 Event - Suriname River dammed

1963 Birthday - Stanley Menzo, Suriname/Dutch soccer goaltender, Ajax/PSV

1963 Birthday - George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter

1963 Event - "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname

1962 Birthday - Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star, Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan

1961 Birthday - Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster, Suriname TV/Radio

1960 Birthday - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer, Mai Tai

1960 Birthday - Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host, Radio KBC

1959 Birthday - Kenneth D. Herdigein, Suriname/Dutch actor, Say A

1958 Event - J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname

1957 Event - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die

1956 Birthday - Denise Jannah, Zeefuik, Suriname jazz singer, Farmer's Market

1955 Event - J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname

1953 Birthday - Roy Ristie, Suriname/Netherlands radio host, Apintie, Kankantrie

1953 Birthday - Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname Lt-colonel, coup 1982

1952 Event - 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends

1952 Event - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers

1951 Death - Johannes C. Kielstra, Dut economist/Governor of Suriname 1933 - 1944, dies at 72

1950 Event - Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands

1949 Event - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

1947 Birthday - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Netherlands singer

1946 Event - NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms

1945 Death - Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47

1942 Event - Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

1941 Birthday - Frank Creton, Suriname/Netherlands painter

1941 Event - U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine

1941 Birthday - Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname

1940 Birthday - Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer, Atman

1940 Event - Governor of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees

1938 Birthday - Frits Wols, Eugene W Wong Loi Sing, Suriname, Secretary-General, UNESCO

1936 Birthday - R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991-

1935 Birthday - Michael Slory, Suriname poet, Bitter Combat

1934 Birthday - Hilly Axwijk, Suriname social worker

1933 Event - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1933 Event - Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators

1933 Event - Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

1932 Event - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo

1931 Event - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo

1929 Birthday - Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet

1929 Death - Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74

1926 Birthday - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer, Dictionary Sranantongo

1925 Birthday - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician

1921 Birthday - Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer

1919 Birthday - Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper

1917 Birthday - Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet, Juancho Picaflor

1917 Birthday - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker

1916 Event - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo

1916 Birthday - Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname

1916 Event - Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname

1916 Birthday - Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian producer

1916 Birthday - Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname, 1963-69

1915 Birthday - A J A Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer

1913 Birthday - Hugo Pos, Suriname/Netherlands WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo

1910 Death - John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44

1909 Death - Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80

1908 Event - Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname

1908 Birthday - Arnoud Breeveld, Suriname bishop

1907 Birthday - Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname, 1949-56

1907 Birthday - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

1905 Event - Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname

1905 Event - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used

1903 Birthday - Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist

1903 Birthday - Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author

1902 Death - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53

1900 Birthday - Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname, PVDA, 1955-62

1899 Birthday - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found, VHP

1899 Death - Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, Governor of Suriname, dies at 67

1892 Death - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69

1891 Event - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname

1891 Event - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

1890 Event - 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations

1889 Death - Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies

1885 Event - John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

1884 Event - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed

1884 Birthday - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor, Suriname, 1928-33

1878 Birthday - John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname, 1933-44

1876 Event - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years

1873 Event - 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname

1865 Birthday - Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer, Lucie R, Suriname

1865 Event - Pope Pius IX visits Suriname

1865 Event - NV Suriname Bank established

1863 Event - Slavery abolished in Suriname and Netherlands Antilles

1863 Event - Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves

1862 Event - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname

1854 Birthday - Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer and Governor of Suriname, 1902 - 1905

1849 Birthday - Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname, 1891-97

1848 Event - Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony

1843 Event - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname

1839 Birthday - Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier, 1897-1901

1838 Death - Abraham de Veer, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71

1832 Event - Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname

1832 Birthday - Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname

1821 Event - Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die

1816 Event - Dutch regain Suriname

1813 Birthday - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname, 1855-59

1812 Death - Jurriaan F de Frederici, Dutch governor-general (Suriname), dies at 60

1809 Birthday - Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname

1804 Event - Suriname sold to English, until February, 1816

1804 Event - 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony

1802 Event - English sell Suriname to Dutch

1799 Event - English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname

1789 Event - Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname

1782 Event - Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies

1779 Death - Jan Nepveu, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59

1774 Event - 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing

1771 Event - West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname

1771 Birthday - Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname

1770 Event - Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname

1768 Death - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75

1767 Birthday - Abraham de Veer, Dutch governor-general of Suriname, 1822-28

1760 Event - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)

1751 Birthday - Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General, Suriname

1740 Death - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch Vice-Admiral (Suriname), dies at 71

1719 Birthday - John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname, 1768-79

1712 Event - French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast

1692 Birthday - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname, 1742-51

1688 Death - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50

1683 Event - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1669 Birthday - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch Vice-Admiral, Suriname/Algeria

1669 Death - Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies

1667 Event - English fleet plunders Suriname plantations

1667 Event - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

1667 Event - Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname

1667 Event - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

1666 Event - Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname

1637 Birthday - Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized













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