Eijsermans family tree » Maria Margaretha Peeters (1921-)

Birthday October 22, 1921

• The temperature on October 22, 1921 was between 3.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

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