Eijsermans family tree » Lucas Cornelis Smolders (1911-)

Birthday April 25, 1911

• The temperature on April 25, 1911 was between 7.3 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • 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 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Edward R. Murrow, American journalist († 1965)
• 1909 » William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid († 1985)
• 1910 » Arapeta Awatere, New Zealand interpreter, military leader, politician, and murderer († 1976)
• 1911 » Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach († 2014)
• 1912 » Earl Bostic, African-American saxophonist († 1965)
• 1913 » Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain († 1944)