Dreyer Tree » Willem Adriaan "Willie" (Willem Adriaan, "Willie") Dreyer b5c1d9e10f2g1 (1897-1976)

Day of marriage April 29, 1922

• The temperature on April 29, 1922 was between 1.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
  • February 27 » A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
  • February 28 » The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
  • April 3 » Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • April 7 » The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
  • August 27 » Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.

Day of death June 13, 1976

• The temperature on June 13, 1976 was between 10.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • February 6 » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
  • April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
  • June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
  • September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
  • September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1979 » Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
• 1980 » Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1981 » Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)