Dreyer Tree » Petrus Adriaan Dreyer (1904-1954)

Day of marriage December 31, 1935

• The temperature on December 31, 1935 was between 7.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 12.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
  • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
  • June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
  • November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
  • December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
  • December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.

Day of death June 17, 1954

• The temperature on June 17, 1954 was between 12.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)
• 1954 » Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920)
• 1956 » Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (b. 1926)
• 1956 » Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)