Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmus Cornelus van Barschot (1908-)

Birthday October 15, 1908

• The temperature on October 15, 1908 was between 5.8 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
  • November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic († 2002)
• 1909 » Robert Trout, American journalist († 2000)