Dreyer Tree » Loisa Catharina Christina Putter (1909-1965)

Day of death February 2, 1965

• The temperature on February 2, 1965 was between -5.1 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
  • February 19 » Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
  • March 6 » Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
  • July 30 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
  • November 8 » The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
  • December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
• 1969 » Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1970 » Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)