Dreyer Tree » Maria Magdalena Emmarentia (Miem) Dreyer (1915-1993)

Day of marriage April 4, 1936

• The temperature on April 4, 1936 was between 1.7 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
  • May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

Day of death December 21, 1993

• The temperature on December 21, 1993 was between 0.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
  • August 20 » After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
  • September 24 » The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
  • November 18 » In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
  • November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
  • November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)
• 1998 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)