Dreyer Tree » Johannes Cornelius Fourie (1875-1960)

Day of marriage February 29, 1916

• The temperature on February 29, 1916 was between 4.6 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

Day of death August 5, 1960

• The temperature on August 5, 1960 was between 12.2 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
  • September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
  • September 14 » Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
  • December 17 » Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)