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Personal data Percival Vigne Dreyer 


Household of Percival Vigne Dreyer

(1) He is married to Cornelia Helena Linde Theunissen.

They got married at Johannesburg.


(2) He is married to Stella (Beatrice Alice ? ) Hutton.

They got married on October 30, 1926 at St Johns, Cape Town, he was 23 years old.

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    Historical events

    Birthday April 9, 1903

    • The temperature on April 9, 1903 was between 2.6 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (56%). 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.
      • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
      • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
      • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
      • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
      • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
      • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.

    Day of marriage October 30, 1926

    • The temperature on October 30, 1926 was between 0.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
      • January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
      • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
      • May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
      • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
      • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
      • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

    Day of death October 29, 1962

    • The temperature on October 29, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
      • January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
      • February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
      • July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
      • October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
      • October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
      • November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
    

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