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Personal data Christiaan Lourens Dreyer 


Household of Christiaan Lourens Dreyer

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Susara Catharina Dreyer) is also his cousin.

He is married to Susara Catharina Dreyer.

They got married on November 9, 1909 at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Lukas Willem Dreyer  1912-1992 
  2. (Not public)

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Historical events

  • The temperature on May 18, 1885 was about 10.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 1885: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
    • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
    • September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
    • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
    • November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
    • December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
  • The temperature on November 9, 1909 was between 0.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
    • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
    • March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
    • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
    • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
    • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • The temperature on September 3, 1930 was between 5.8 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
    • February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
    • May 7 » The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
    • July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
    • September 6 » Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
    • September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
    • December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.


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