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Personal data Johannes Gerhardus Dreyer 


Household of Johannes Gerhardus Dreyer

(1) He is married to Maria Susanna Willemina Bouwer.

They got married on April 29, 1891 at Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa, he was 21 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Johanna Maria Dreyer  1904-1987 
  2. Louis Botha Dreyer  1915-1983 


(2) He is married to Isabella Susanna Pieterse.

They got married on June 27, 1952 at Parys, Orange Free State, South Africa, he was 82 years old.

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  • The temperature on February 22, 1870 was about -0.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
    • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
    • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
    • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
    • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
    • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • The temperature on June 27, 1952 was between 6.6 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
    • May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
    • June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
    • October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
    • November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
    • November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
    • December 5 » Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
  • The temperature on October 27, 1957 was between 9.3 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
    • May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
    • July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
    • September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
    • September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
    • September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
    • September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.


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