Dreyer Tree » Adriana Johanna Ebersohn (1926-2000)

Day of marriage January 15, 1957

• The temperature on January 15, 1957 was between -2.6 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
  • May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
  • August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
  • October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
  • November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.

Day of death December 20, 2000

• The temperature on December 20, 2000 was between 0.3 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
  • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
  • July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)