Eijsermans family tree » Johanna Henriette Maria Kersten (1911-)

Birthday December 13, 1911

• The temperature on December 13, 1911 was between 0.1 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • 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.
  • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist († 1995)
• 1908 » Van Heflin, American actor († 1971)
• 1911 » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter († 1972)
• 1911 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1912 » Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player († 1989)
• 1913 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army († 2002)