Dreyer Tree » Elsie Catharina Dreyer (1917-2000)

Day of marriage August 19, 1952

• The temperature on August 19, 1952 was between 12.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
  • June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
  • July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
  • September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
  • December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.

Day of death October 17, 2000

• The temperature on October 17, 2000 was between 4.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2000 » Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)