Dreyer Tree » Johannes Mattheus Dreyer b5c1d6e5f6g4h2 (1912-1999)

Day of marriage October 3, 1935

• The temperature on October 3, 1935 was between 7.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • May 27 » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
  • September 3 » Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300mph.
  • September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
  • September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
  • December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
  • December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.

Day of death April 7, 1999

• The temperature on April 7, 1999 was between 7.2 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
  • February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
  • March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
  • November 12 » The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.
  • December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
• 1997 » Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 1998 » Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1999 » Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2001 » David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)