Dreyer Tree » Maria Elizabeth van Rensburg (1890-1967)

Day of marriage May 28, 1929

• The temperature on May 28, 1929 was between 11.4 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death October 19, 1967

• The temperature on October 19, 1967 was between 3.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
  • April 24 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
  • June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
  • July 6 » Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
  • July 29 » Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USSForrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
  • September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (b. 1869)
• 1969 » Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and politician, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)