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Personal data Christiaan Willem Dreyer 


Household of Christiaan Willem Dreyer

He is married to Lily Norah Fitzmaurice.

They got married on July 14, 1913 at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

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  2. Elsie Isobel Dreyer  1918-1922
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  • The temperature on July 13, 1887 was about 30.8 °C. The air pressure was 50 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 32%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
    • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
    • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
    • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
    • November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
    • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
  • The temperature on July 14, 1913 was between 12.3 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 19.4 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • February 17 » The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
    • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
    • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
    • June 1 » The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
    • July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
    • November 5 » King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
  • The temperature on June 3, 1953 was between 5.6 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
    • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
    • January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
    • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
    • September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
    • October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
    • November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.


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  • 1884 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach († 1951)
  • 1889 » Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician († 1965)
  • 1889 » Stan Coveleski, American baseball player († 1984)
  • 1892 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower († 1955)
  • 1892 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 1941)
  • 1894 » Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright († 1940)

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