Dreyer Tree » Michiel Joseph (Jopie) Venter (1921-1991)

Personal data Michiel Joseph (Jopie) Venter 


Household of Michiel Joseph (Jopie) Venter

He is married to Wilhelmina Cecilia (Welna) Dreyer.

They got married on March 13, 1943 at Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, he was 21 years old.

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  • The temperature on May 22, 1921 was between 6.7 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
    • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
    • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
    • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
    • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
    • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
  • The temperature on July 27, 1991 was between 11.5 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
    • March 1 » Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
    • March 3 » An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
    • May 16 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
    • June 12 » Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
    • June 25 » Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
    • July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.


Same birth/death day

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