Eijsermans family tree » Goverdina Maria Cornelia Jansen (1911-)

Birthday May 7, 1911

• The temperature on May 7, 1911 was between 1.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1911 » Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator († 1993)
• 1912 » Pannalal Patel, Indian author († 1989)
• 1913 » John Spencer Hardy, American general († 2012)