Dreyer Tree » Daniel Petrus Dreyer (1917-1982)
Personal data Daniel Petrus Dreyer
- He was born on February 2, 1917 in Rustenburg.
- He died on November 12, 1982, he was 65 years old.
- A child of Jacobus Hercules Dreyer and Catharina Johanna Susanna Venter
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Birthday February 2, 1917
- The temperature on February 2, 1917 was between -15.2 °C and -1.0 °C and averaged -7.6 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
- January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
- March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
- June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
- July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
Day of death November 12, 1982
- The temperature on November 12, 1982 was between 8.1 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1982: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
- March 26 » A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- April 25 » Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- June 18 » Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
- July 19 » In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
- August 11 » A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
- October 1 » Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
Same birth/death day
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- 1917 » Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam († 2018)
- 1917 » Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot († 2018)
- 1918 » Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author († 2011)
- 1976 » Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893)
- 1976 » Walter Piston, American composer and academic (b. 1894)
- 1981 » William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1986 » Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist (b. 1916)
- 1987 » Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1937)
- 1990 » Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
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Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I14025.php : accessed January 30, 2026), "Daniel Petrus Dreyer (1917-1982)".