Dreyer Tree » Anna Johanna Brits (1937-1989)

Day of marriage April 9, 1955

• The temperature on April 9, 1955 was between 6.6 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
  • May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
  • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  • December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

Day of death October 22, 1989

• The temperature on October 22, 1989 was between 13.7 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • June 4 » Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
  • July 17 » First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
  • July 17 » Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
  • August 19 » Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • December 3 » Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
  • December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
• 1990 » Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1918)
• 1991 » Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1924)