Dreyer Tree » Jacobus Johannes Roelofse (1892-1954)

Day of marriage June 17, 1913

• The temperature on June 17, 1913 was between 12.6 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
  • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • March 12 » The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
  • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
  • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

Day of death October 4, 1954

• The temperature on October 4, 1954 was between 10.1 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
  • August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
  • September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)