Dreyer Tree » Suzanna Francina Dreyer (1894-1979)

Day of marriage June 30, 1914

• The temperature on June 30, 1914 was between 11.1 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  • August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
  • August 26 » World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.

Day of death July 7, 1979

• The temperature on July 7, 1979 was between 11.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
  • July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
  • September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
  • September 20 » A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
  • October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
  • November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)