Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus Cornelius Rietmeijer (1889-1968)

Day of marriage July 12, 1921

• The temperature on July 12, 1921 was between 11.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
  • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

Day of death February 25, 1968

• The temperature on February 25, 1968 was between -4.0 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
  • July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
  • November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
  • December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
  • December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
  • December 26 » The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
• 1964 » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
• 1970 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)