Eijsermans family tree » Anna Maria Petronella van der Sneppen (1896-1943)

Day of marriage August 22, 1917

• The temperature on August 22, 1917 was between 9.4 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
  • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
  • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Day of death March 8, 1943

• The temperature on March 8, 1943 was between -0.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 9 » World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
  • February 14 » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
  • March 3 » World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
  • July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
  • September 30 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)