Dreyer Tree » Christoffel Jacobus Dreyer (1896-1978)
Personal data Christoffel Jacobus Dreyer
- He was born on April 28, 1896 in Oorsonskraal, district Wolmaransstad, Transvaal, SA.
- He died on November 4, 1978 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 82 years old.
- A child of Lucas Ignatius "Ignardus" Dreyer and Anna Maria Waldeck
Household of Christoffel Jacobus Dreyer
He is married to Anna Christina Elizabeth Visser.
They got married
Child(ren):
- Lucas Ignatius Dreyer 1917-1998
- Alida Maria Dreyer 1920-1998
- (Not public)
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Historical events
Birthday April 28, 1896
- The temperature on April 28, 1896 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
- February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
- December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death November 4, 1978
- The temperature on November 4, 1978 was between 7.0 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
- March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
- March 28 » The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- May 25 » The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
- June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
- August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
- September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
Same birth/death day
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- 1900 » Alice Berry, Australian activist († 1978)
- 1900 » Heinrich Müller, German SS officer († 1945)
- 1900 » Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1992)
- 1974 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
- 1975 » Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
- 1975 » Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)
- 1976 » Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
- 1977 » Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (b. 1935)
- 1980 » Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (b. 1905)
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Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I7842.php : accessed January 28, 2026), "Christoffel Jacobus Dreyer (1896-1978)".