Dreyer Tree » Andries Fredrick Dreyer (1903-1963)

Day of marriage December 20, 1927

• The temperature on December 20, 1927 was between -12.5 °C and -6.7 °C and averaged -10.1 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  • May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
  • June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
  • July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
  • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.

Day of death June 21, 1963

• The temperature on June 21, 1963 was between 13.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
  • March 8 » The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
  • April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
  • June 5 » The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
  • August 8 » The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
  • December 10 » Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Claude Farrère, French captain and author (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1964 » Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 » James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 » Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1967 » Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892)