Eijsermans family tree » Hugo Lambertus van Rooijen (± 1880-1955)

Day of death October 22, 1955

• The temperature on October 22, 1955 was between 6.0 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
  • April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
  • April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  • October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1956 » Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)