Dreyer Tree » Gertruida Elizabeth 'Ida' Dreyer (1932-2016)

Day of marriage July 11, 1959

• The temperature on July 11, 1959 was between 14.5 °C and 30.7 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
  • March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
  • September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
  • October 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
  • November 15 » The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
  • November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

Day of death July 16, 2016

• The temperature on July 16, 2016 was between 16.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
  • May 23 » Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured.
  • September 19 » In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
  • September 29 » Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
  • October 8 » In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
  • December 9 » At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)
• 2015 » Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919)
• 2015 » Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2017 » George Romero, American filmmaker (b. 1940)