Dreyer Tree » Susanna Maria Pieters (1900-1985)

Day of marriage May 5, 1929

• The temperature on May 5, 1929 was between 9.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Day of death April 25, 1985

• The temperature on April 25, 1985 was between 0.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
  • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
  • November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
• 1983 » William S. Bowdern, American priest and author (b. 1897)
• 1988 » Carolyn Franklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1988 » Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (b. 1923)
• 1992 » Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)