Dreyer Tree » Hester Magdalena Botes du Buisson (1911-1979)

Day of marriage 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.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
  • August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
  • August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

Day of death June 6, 1979

• The temperature on June 6, 1979 was between 10.9 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
  • March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
  • March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
  • May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
  • June 12 » Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
  • July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1976 » J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
• 1979 » Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1980 » Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (b. 1918)
• 1982 » Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)