Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus van Gestel (1862-1940)

Day of marriage May 6, 1893

• The temperature on May 6, 1893 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
  • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
  • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
  • September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
  • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

Day of death February 1, 1940

• The temperature on February 1, 1940 was between -7.8 °C and -4.3 °C and averaged -6.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.
  • February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
  • February 29 » Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
  • June 10 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
  • November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1940 » Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)