Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus Cornelis van Gils (1902-1970)

Day of marriage August 27, 1928

• The temperature on August 27, 1928 was between 13.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death August 23, 1970

• The temperature on August 23, 1970 was between 13.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
  • April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
  • April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
  • September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
  • December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)