Dreyer Tree » John Christian Peter Dreyer O (1893-1974)
Personal data John Christian Peter Dreyer O
- He was born on May 19, 1893 in Cape Touwn Cape South Africa.
- He died on February 18, 1974 in Rondebosch Cape South Africa, he was 80 years old.
- A child of Johan Christian Dreyer and Adriana Jacoba van Niekerk
Household of John Christian Peter Dreyer O
He is married to Harriet Ann Luckhurst Johnson.
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Birthday May 19, 1893
- The temperature on May 19, 1893 was about 20.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
- July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
- September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
Day of death February 18, 1974
- The temperature on February 18, 1974 was between 3.7 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
- January 2 » United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
- January 18 » A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- July 27 » Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
- September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
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- 1890 » Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam († 1969)
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- 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
- 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
- 1973 » Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
- 1976 » Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 1977 » Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
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