Dreyer Tree » Roelof Frederick "Frikkie" (Roelof Frederick "Frikkie") Botha (1903-1975)

Day of marriage September 28, 1926

• The temperature on September 28, 1926 was between 6.0 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Day of death September 5, 1975

• The temperature on September 5, 1975 was between 7.4 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
  • February 13 » Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
  • March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
  • June 12 » India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
  • June 29 » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
  • July 17 » Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1972 » Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1980 » Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (b. 1923)