Dreyer Tree » Susara Johanna Dreyer (1933-2011)

Day of marriage July 16, 1955

• The temperature on July 16, 1955 was between 17.0 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
  • February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  • April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
  • November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

Day of death September 6, 2011

• The temperature on September 6, 2011 was between 13.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 27.0 mm of rain during 13.0 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
  • February 13 » For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
  • February 14 » As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
  • April 1 » After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
  • July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
  • July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2010 » Clive Donner, English director and editor (b. 1926)
• 2011 » Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (b. 1947)
• 2012 » Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Jerome Kilty, American actor and playwright (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b. 1931)