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Personal data Helgaard Petrus Dreyer 


Household of Helgaard Petrus Dreyer

He is married to Aletta Catharina van Niekerk.

They got married on February 11, 1884 at Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 22 years old.


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  • The temperature on February 13, 1861 was about -2.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
    • June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
    • August 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
    • October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
    • November 1 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
    • November 28 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
  • The temperature on February 11, 1884 was about 4.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
    • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
    • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
    • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
  • The temperature on April 4, 1942 was between 2.9 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
    • May 3 » World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
    • June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
    • August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
    • September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
    • November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.


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