Dreyer Tree » Michiel Jacobus Johannes "Giel" (Michiel Jacobus Johannes "Giel") Dreyer (1882-1957)

Day of marriage June 6, 1905

• The temperature on June 6, 1905 was between 10.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
  • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.

Day of death May 20, 1957

• The temperature on May 20, 1957 was between 7.0 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
  • March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
  • July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
  • September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
  • October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
  • October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1949 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)