Eijsermans family tree » Anna Maria Speekenbrink (1872-1954)

Day of marriage January 21, 1895

• The temperature on January 21, 1895 was about 5.5 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Day of death August 2, 1954

• The temperature on August 2, 1954 was between 13.2 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
  • April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
  • November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
  • November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and educator (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)