Dreyer Tree » Adam Johannes Swanepoel (1914-1979)

Personal data Adam Johannes Swanepoel 


Household of Adam Johannes Swanepoel

He is married to Maria Magdalena Emmarentia (Miem) Dreyer.

They got married on April 4, 1936 at Bethlehem, Oranje-Vrystaat, Suid-Afrika, he was 21 years old.


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  3. Helene Swanepoel  1940-1943

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Birthday August 15, 1914

  • The temperature on August 15, 1914 was between 11.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
    • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
    • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
    • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
    • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
    • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.

Day of marriage April 4, 1936

  • The temperature on April 4, 1936 was between 2.0 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
    • January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
    • April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
    • April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
    • June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
    • July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
    • August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

Day of death February 26, 1979

  • The temperature on February 26, 1979 was between -2.3 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
    • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
    • February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
    • May 28 » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
    • June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
    • October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.


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About the surname Swanepoel


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