Dreyer Tree » Gretha Edna Rosalie Less (1911-1994)

Personal data Gretha Edna Rosalie Less 

  • She was born on November 8, 1911 in Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika.
  • She died on May 7, 1994 in Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika, she was 82 years old.

Household of Gretha Edna Rosalie Less

She is married to Basil Melt Dreyer.

They got married on December 10, 1938, she was 27 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gretha Edna Rosalie Less

Gretha Edna Rosalie Less
1911-1994

1938

Basil Melt Dreyer
1915-1960

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Historical events

Birthday November 8, 1911

  • The temperature on November 8, 1911 was between 5.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
    • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
    • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
    • June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
    • September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
    • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Day of marriage December 10, 1938

  • The temperature on December 10, 1938 was between 2.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
    • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
    • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
    • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
    • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
    • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

Day of death May 7, 1994

  • The temperature on May 7, 1994 was between 12.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
    • April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
    • May 21 » The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
    • September 28 » The cruise ferry MSEstonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
    • September 30 » Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
    • October 21 » North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
    • November 7 » WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.


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