Dreyer Tree » Christiaan Frederick (Chris) Dreyer b5c1d8e2f2g3h2 (1935-2005)

Day of marriage August 15, 1958

• The temperature on August 15, 1958 was between 16.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
  • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
  • November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
  • December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
  • December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

Day of death March 10, 2005

• The temperature on March 10, 2005 was between -1.7 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 14 » YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
  • May 13 » Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
  • August 2 » Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • August 15 » The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
  • August 19 » The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2005 » Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2006 » Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
• 2010 » Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)