Dreyer Tree » Maria Elizabeth Magdalena Moolman (1930-2000)

Day of marriage May 18, 1949

• The temperature on May 18, 1949 was between 6.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
  • February 14 » The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
  • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
  • September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.

Day of death March 1, 2000

• The temperature on March 1, 2000 was between 2.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
  • October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • December 30 » Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1995 » Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2004 » Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Jack Wild, English actor (b.1952)
• 2006 » Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)