Dreyer Tree » Martha Maria Magaretha (Martha Maria Magaretha) Dreyer (1902-2001)

Day of marriage November 16, 1927

• The temperature on November 16, 1927 was between 2.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

Day of death April 5, 2001

• The temperature on April 5, 2001 was between 4.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
  • March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
  • May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
  • May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
  • May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2000 » Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (b. 1909)
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• 2001 » Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)