Eijsermans family tree » Anna Cornelia Gerarda van Hooff (1915-)

Birthday January 23, 1915

• The temperature on January 23, 1915 was between -1.6 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • July 16 » At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
  • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » Potter Stewart, American lawyer and judge († 1985)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1916 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 1979)
• 1916 » David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist († 2018)