Eijsermans family tree » Maria Adriana Johanna Bertens (1906-)

Birthday June 22, 1906

• The temperature on June 22, 1906 was between 13.4 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Carl Hubbell, American baseball player († 1988)
• 1903 » John Dillinger, American criminal († 1934)
• 1906 » Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author († 2001)
• 1906 » Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1906 » William Kneale, English logician and philosopher († 1990)
• 1907 » Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist († 1946)