The temperature on November 9, 1936 was between 4.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of marriage November 5, 1960
The temperature on November 5, 1960 was between 6.5 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
December 1 » Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
Day of death May 23, 1992
The temperature on May 23, 1992 was between 11.3 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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.
January 6 » President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
January 22 » Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
February 1 » The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case.
May 7 » Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
July 20 » Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
December 3 » The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Gert Esterhuizen, "Family tree Eric Esterhuizen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I5896.php : accessed January 5, 2026), "Patrius PRETORIUS (1936-1992)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.