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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.


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  4. Elsie Isobel Dreyer  1918-1922
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    Historical events

    Birthday July 13, 1887

    • 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.
      • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
      • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
      • April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
      • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
      • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
      • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.

    Day of marriage July 14, 1913

    • 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.
      • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
      • July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
      • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
      • October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
      • December 23 » The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

    Day of death June 3, 1953

    • 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.
      • February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
      • February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
      • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
      • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
      • August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
      • October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
    

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    • 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)
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