Dreyer Tree » Thomas Andries Dreyer (1919-1967)

Day of marriage October 3, 1942

• The temperature on October 3, 1942 was between 8.1 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
  • July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
  • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
  • August 16 » World War II: A naval L-class blimp drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found.

Day of death October 7, 1967

• The temperature on October 7, 1967 was between 13.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
  • April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
  • June 10 » The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
  • October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
  • October 26 » Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)