Dreyer Tree » Sameul Johannes Dreyer (1913-1991)

Day of marriage March 22, 1937

• The temperature on March 22, 1937 was between 0.4 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
  • February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
  • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
  • July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

Day of death April 27, 1991

• The temperature on April 27, 1991 was between 3.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
  • May 31 » Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
  • June 12 » Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
  • July 10 » The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
  • August 6 » Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
  • August 19 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Fred Bear, American hunter and author (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927)
• 1992 » Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1921)