Dreyer Tree » Elizabeth Christina Jacoba Coetzee (1881-1962)

Day of marriage August 27, 1900

• The temperature on August 27, 1900 was about 12.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

Day of death July 6, 1962

• The temperature on July 6, 1962 was between 8.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
  • July 9 » Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
  • September 25 » The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
  • October 13 » The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane, with winds above 150mph. 46 people die.
  • November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
  • December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Scott LaFaro, American bassist (b. 1936)
• 1961 » Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Joseph August, archduke of Austria (b. 1872)
• 1962 » Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
• 1962 » William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1963 » George, duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)