Dreyer Tree » Cornelia Catharina (Cornelia Catharina ) Potgieter (1912-1983)

Personal data Cornelia Catharina (Cornelia Catharina ) Potgieter 

  • First name Cornelia Catharina .
  • She was born on March 18, 1912.
  • She died on August 20, 1983 in Groblersdal Transvaal South Africa, she was 71 years old.

Household of Cornelia Catharina (Cornelia Catharina ) Potgieter

She is married to Lambertus Dreyer.

They got married on February 16, 1935 at Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, she was 22 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday March 18, 1912

  • The temperature on March 18, 1912 was between 4.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
    • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
    • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
    • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
    • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
    • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Day of death August 20, 1983

  • The temperature on August 20, 1983 was between 18.2 °C and 27.6 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
    • February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
    • September 26 » Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
    • October 4 » Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
    • October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
    • November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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About the surname Potgieter


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