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Personal data Thomas Frederik Dreyer 


Household of Thomas Frederik Dreyer

(1) He is married to Aletta Cathrina Maria Botha.

They got married on November 21, 1898 at Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Maria Charlotte Dreyer  1911-1944 


(2) He is married to Maria Elizabeth van Rensburg.

They got married on May 28, 1929 at Brits, Transvaal South Africa, he was 50 years old.

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  • The temperature on June 15, 1878 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
    • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
    • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
    • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
    • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
    • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
  • The temperature on May 28, 1929 was between 11.4 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
    • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
    • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
    • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
    • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • The temperature on June 24, 1937 was between 8.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
    • May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
    • May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
    • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
    • July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
    • August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.


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