Eijsermans family tree » Guillaume Vincent Nicolaas Snels (1889-1957)

Day of marriage October 23, 1917

• The temperature on October 23, 1917 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 13.8 mm of rain. 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
  • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
  • November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
  • December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

Day of death March 26, 1957

• The temperature on March 26, 1957 was between 5.3 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
  • July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
  • October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
  • October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1864)
• 1954 » Charles Perrin, French rower (b. 1875)
• 1957 » Édouard Herriot, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
• 1958 » Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1887)
• 1959 » Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1966 » Victor Hochepied, French swimmer (b. 1883)