Dreyer Tree » Petrus Johannes Dreyer (1896-1957)

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Household of Petrus Johannes Dreyer

He is married to Helena Barendina de Wit.

They got married on February 29, 1928 at Durban, Natal, South Africa, he was 31 years old.


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  • The temperature on February 29, 1928 was between 0.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
    • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
    • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
    • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
    • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
    • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
    • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
  • The temperature on August 16, 1957 was between 12.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 19.6 mm of rain during 9.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
    • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
    • September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
    • September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
    • November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
    • November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1893 » Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher († 1979)
  • 1894 » Del Lord, Canadian-American actor and director († 1970)
  • 1895 » Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author († 1980)
  • 1896 » Paulino Alcántara, Spanish Filipino football player and manager († 1964)
  • 1897 » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader († 1975)
  • 1897 » Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician († 1947)

Source: Wikipedia


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