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Personal data Gwendoline Iris Jones 


Household of Gwendoline Iris Jones

She is married to Marthinus Versfeld Dreyer.

They got married.

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Historical events

Birthday August 23, 1907

  • The temperature on August 23, 1907 was between 10.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
    • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
    • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
    • October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
    • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
    • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.

Day of death May 14, 1996

  • The temperature on May 14, 1996 was between 8.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
    • February 6 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
    • February 17 » In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
    • February 29 » Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.
    • April 28 » Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
    • May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
    • July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1905 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor († 1951)
  • 1905 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist († 1982)
  • 1906 » Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master († 2017)
  • 1908 » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator († 2008)
  • 1909 » Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire († 1970)
  • 1910 » Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier († 2009)

Source: Wikipedia


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