Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia Jacoba Oostveen (1909-)

Birthday April 22, 1909

• The temperature on April 22, 1909 was between 6.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator († 1997)
• 1908 » Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and author († 1972)
• 1909 » Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian († 2001)
• 1909 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Sephardic Jewish-Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1909 » Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 2000)
• 1910 » Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic († 1971)