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Personal data Christiaan Lourens Dreyer 


Household of Christiaan Lourens Dreyer

He is married to Heila Levina Helena Catherina Paulina Steyn.

They got married on February 21, 1912 at Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 25 years old.


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  • The temperature on March 8, 1886 was about -2.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
    • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
    • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
    • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
  • The temperature on February 21, 1912 was between -2.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
    • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
    • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
    • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
    • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
    • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • The temperature on July 2, 1958 was between 13.2 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 10.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
    • May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
    • June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
    • July 9 » A 7.8 Mw  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
    • October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
    • October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
    • November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.


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