Dreyer Tree » Lucas Ignatius Dreyer (1917-1998)

Birthday March 25, 1917

• The temperature on March 25, 1917 was between -5.0 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
  • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
  • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1915 » Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer († 1998)
• 1916 » S. M. Pandit, Indian painter and educator († 1993)
• 1918 » Howard Cosell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1995)
• 1920 » Patrick Troughton, English actor († 1987)
• 1920 » Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright († 1978)