Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Adrianus Antonius Bergmans (1906-)

Birthday March 27, 1906

• The temperature on March 27, 1906 was between -0.6 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright († 1950)
• 1905 » Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American author and engineer († 1980)
• 1905 » Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1935)
• 1905 » Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general († 1980)
• 1906 » Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer († 1969)
• 1909 » Golo Mann, German historian and author († 1994)