Dreyer Tree » Gerhardus Swanepoel (1888-1957)

Personal data Gerhardus Swanepoel 

  • He was born in the year 1888.
  • He died on August 17, 1957, he was 69 years old.

Household of Gerhardus Swanepoel

He is married to Magdalena Catharina de Beer.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerhardus Swanepoel

Gerhardus Swanepoel
1888-1957


Magdalena Catharina de Beer
1891-1944

Ammarensie Petronella Swanepoel
1912-1999

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Historical events

Day of death August 17, 1957

  • The temperature on August 17, 1957 was between 14.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
    • January 9 » British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
    • January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
    • June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
    • July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
    • September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.


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About the surname Swanepoel


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