Kramer Family Tree » Eilert Christian Larson Larsen Birklid (født Birkelid) (1868-1938)

Christening day January 10, 1869

• The temperature on January 10, 1869 was about 4.5 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
  • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
  • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
  • December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

Day of death November 20, 1938

• The temperature on November 20, 1938 was between 2.5 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (b. 1896)
• 1936 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1938 » Edwin Hall, American physicist (b. 1855)
• 1938 » Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Tim Coleman, English footballer (b. 1881)