Dreyer Tree » Magdalena Christina (Lenie) Dreyer (1896-1979)

Day of marriage March 13, 1917

• The temperature on March 13, 1917 was between 1.6 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Day of death February 3, 1979

• The temperature on February 3, 1979 was between -0.3 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
  • July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
  • August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
  • October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
  • November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
  • December 12 » The 8.2 M_w  Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » C. N. Annadurai, Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)
• 1969 » Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambican activist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1975 » Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
• 1975 » William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (b. 1873)
• 1985 » Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1989 » John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)