Eijsermans family tree » Martina Hendrika van den Biggelaar (1911-)

Birthday October 28, 1911

• The temperature on October 28, 1911 was between 2.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina († 1995)
• 1909 » Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator († 1992)
• 1912 » Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist († 2005)
• 1914 » Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician († 1988)
• 1914 » Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician († 1995)
• 1914 » Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)