Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Nicolaas Vissers (± 1916-1917)

Day of death February 12, 1917

• The temperature on February 12, 1917 was between -0.5 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
  • June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Source: Wikipedia

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