Dreyer Tree » Lucas Ignatius Dreyer (1922-2012)

Day of marriage November 10, 1967

• The temperature on November 10, 1967 was between 2.9 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
  • February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
  • May 13 » Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
  • June 9 » Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
  • September 10 » The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
  • October 26 » Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.

Day of death January 8, 2012

• The temperature on January 8, 2012 was between 5.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • February 7 » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
  • March 20 » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
  • August 25 » Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
  • September 11 » A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
  • November 7 » An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
  • November 9 » At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.

Source: Wikipedia

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