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Personal data Adriaan Albertus Dreyer 


Household of Adriaan Albertus Dreyer

He is married to Magdalena Elizabeth van Wyk Muller.

They got married on June 21, 1941 at Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa, he was 38 years old.


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Historical events

  • The temperature on February 27, 1903 was between 2.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. 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 year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
    • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
    • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
    • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
    • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
    • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • The temperature on June 21, 1941 was between 12.0 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • February 23 » Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
    • July 20 » Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
    • September 30 » World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
    • December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
    • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
    • December 26 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
  • The temperature on December 16, 1983 was between -1.9 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
    • April 4 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
    • September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
    • September 6 » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
    • September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
    • November 5 » Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.


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