Dreyer Tree » Anna Louisa Catharina Dreyer (1896-1992)

Day of marriage April 11, 1924

• The temperature on April 11, 1924 was between -1.5 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
  • December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Day of death May 19, 1992

• The temperature on May 19, 1992 was between 10.9 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 16 » El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
  • March 6 » The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
  • April 17 » The Katina P is deliberately run aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
  • May 17 » Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, many disappearances, and more than 3,500 arrests.
  • September 12 » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
  • December 31 » Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
• 1996 » John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)