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Personal data Elsie Petronella Pretorius 


Household of Elsie Petronella Pretorius

She is married to Philiphus Albertus Dreyer.

They got married on May 15, 1916 at Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa, she was 18 years old.


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  • The temperature on June 15, 1897 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • 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 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
    • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
    • August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
    • September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
    • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
    • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
  • The temperature on May 15, 1916 was between 9.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
    • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
    • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
    • November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
    • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
    • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
  • The temperature on July 5, 1976 was between 15.4 °C and 31.2 °C and averaged 24.2 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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)
  • 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
    • January 12 » The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
    • February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
    • February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
    • July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
    • July 17 » East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
    • July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.


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