Dreyer Tree » Cornelis Hendrik Dreyer (1923-2000)

Day of marriage June 15, 1946

• The temperature on June 15, 1946 was between 2.2 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
  • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • July 15 » State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • July 22 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
  • August 16 » Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.
  • December 21 » An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.

Day of death May 24, 2000

• The temperature on May 24, 2000 was between 11.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
  • October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
  • November 1 » Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
  • November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)