Eijsermans family tree » Elisabeth Catharina Antonia Donkers (1910-)

Birthday September 19, 1910

• The temperature on September 19, 1910 was between 6.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic († 2001)
• 1908 » Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France († 2004)
• 1909 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman († 1998)
• 1910 » Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Margaret Lindsay, American actress († 1981)
• 1911 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)