Dreyer Tree » Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer ???? (1898-1955)
Personal data Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer ????
- He was born May 1898.
- He died on July 16, 1955 in Bokfontein, Brits, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 57 years old.
- A child of Marthinus Christoffel Dreyer and Hester Magaretha Schoeman
Household of Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer ????
He is married to Maria Elizabeth Schoeman.
They got married on May 7, 1917 at Krokodilrivier, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 19 years old.
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Historical events
Day of marriage May 7, 1917
- The temperature on May 7, 1917 was between -0.7 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
- April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
- July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
- September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
Day of death July 16, 1955
- The temperature on July 16, 1955 was between 17.0 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 8.5 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
- May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
- November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
- December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
Same birth/death day
- 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
- 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
- 1954 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
- 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
- 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
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The Dreyer Tree publication was prepared by Hendrik Dreyer.
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Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I16796.php : accessed January 18, 2026), "Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer ???? (1898-1955)".