Dreyer Tree » Pieter Joshua de Villiers (-1936)

Personal data Pieter Joshua de Villiers 


Household of Pieter Joshua de Villiers

He is married to Josina Florentina /Dreyer Dreijer.

They got married on March 22, 1904 at Simonsstad, Cape Province South Africa.

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Historical events

Day of death January 6, 1936

  • The temperature on January 6, 1936 was between 4.3 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
    • April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
    • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
    • July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
    • July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
    • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
    • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.


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