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Personal data Helena Barendina de Wit 


Household of Helena Barendina de Wit

She is married to Petrus Johannes Dreyer.

They got married on February 29, 1928 at Durban, Natal, South Africa, she was 24 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.
    • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
    • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
    • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
    • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
    • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
    • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
  • The temperature on May 1, 1961 was between 2.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
    • April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
    • May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
    • October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
    • October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
    • November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
    • December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.


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