Dreyer Tree » Gert Petrus Rudolph Dreyer ??? (1916-)

Birthday May 3, 1916

• The temperature on May 3, 1916 was between 6.9 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
  • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1915 » Richard Lippold, American sculptor and academic († 2002)
• 1915 » Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling († 2003)
• 1916 » Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and actor († 2006)
• 1917 » Betty Comden, American screenwriter and librettist († 2006)
• 1917 » George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor († 2016)