Dreyer Tree » Coenraad Hendrik Dreyer (1904-1969)

Day of marriage July 13, 1926

• The temperature on July 13, 1926 was between 15.6 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Day of death June 25, 1969

• The temperature on June 25, 1969 was between 13.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
  • May 9 » Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
  • May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
  • October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
  • November 24 » Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• 1971 » John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1972 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (b. 1890)
• 1974 » Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Olave Baden-Powell, British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader (b. 1889)