Dreyer Tree » Gert Antonie Petrus Drotsky (1912-1975)

Day of marriage June 1, 1940

• The temperature on June 1, 1940 was between 6.1 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
  • February 28 » Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
  • April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
  • September 15 » World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
  • November 12 » World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death November 12, 1975

• The temperature on November 12, 1975 was between -0.6 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • February 13 » Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
  • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • 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 15 » Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
  • September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician († 1971)
• 1972 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Tommy Wisdom, English race car driver and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Walter Piston, American composer and academic (b. 1894)