Dreyer Tree » Elizabeth Anna Wilhelmina Dreyer (1906-1988)

Day of marriage April 21, 1950

• The temperature on April 21, 1950 was between 4.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • January 17 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.
  • September 15 » Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
  • October 7 » Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
  • November 1 » Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
  • November 17 » Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
  • November 26 » Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.

Day of death April 15, 1988

• The temperature on April 15, 1988 was between 6.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
  • March 20 » Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
  • May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
  • October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)