Eijsermans family tree » Peter Johannes Hendricus van den Oetelaar (1915-)

Birthday March 3, 1915

• The temperature on March 3, 1915 was between 0.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Harold J. Stone, American actor († 2005)
• 1913 » Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer († 1972)
• 1914 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor († 1973)
• 1916 » Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician († 2006)
• 1917 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic († 1952)
• 1918 » Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)