Dreyer Tree » Andries Johannes Dreyer (1918-1979)

Day of marriage April 24, 1943

• The temperature on April 24, 1943 was between 6.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 10 » World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
  • October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
  • October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
  • October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
  • November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Day of death August 3, 1979

• The temperature on August 3, 1979 was between 12.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
  • July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
  • July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
  • August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
  • October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
  • November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)