Eijsermans family tree » Joanna Adriana Maria van Erven (1909-)

Birthday June 13, 1909

• The temperature on June 13, 1909 was between 9.5 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala († 1998)
• 1910 » Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright († 1999)
• 1910 » Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association († 2001)
• 1910 » Mary Wickes, American actress († 1995)
• 1911 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1911 » Maurice Copeland, American actor († 1985)