Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia Maria van Dun (1890-1959)

Day of marriage May 8, 1918

• The temperature on May 8, 1918 was between 7.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
  • January 27 » Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
  • February 24 » Estonian Declaration of Independence.
  • March 23 » First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
  • November 3 » The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
  • December 17 » Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Day of death June 11, 1959

• The temperature on June 11, 1959 was between 4.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
  • February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
  • June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
  • October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
  • November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)