Eijsermans family tree » Anna Cornelia van Beek (1915-)

Birthday September 27, 1915

• The temperature on September 27, 1915 was between 6.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author († 2007)
• 1916 » S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician († 2006)
• 1917 » Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist († 2010)
• 1917 » Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor († 2009)
• 1917 » Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist († 2010)
• 1917 » William T. Orr, American actor and producer († 2002)