Eijsermans family tree » Margaretha Antonetta van der Aa (1907-)

Birthday June 28, 1907

• The temperature on June 28, 1907 was between 11.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
  • August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer († 1979)
• 1906 » Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1907 » Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer († 1983)
• 1907 » Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician († 1989)
• 1909 » Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1912 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher († 2007)