Eijsermans family tree » Elisabeth Poppelaars (1915-)

Birthday September 4, 1915

• The temperature on September 4, 1915 was between 3.2 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium († 2005)
• 1913 » Mickey Cohen, American mob boss († 1976)
• 1913 » Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author († 2015)
• 1913 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1913 » Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic († 2009)
• 1914 » Rudolf Leiding, German businessman († 2003)