Eijsermans family tree » Henriette Wilhelmine "Jet" Eijsermans (1920-1944)

Day of marriage June 15, 1943

• The temperature on June 15, 1943 was between 7.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
  • March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
  • March 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
  • May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
  • August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
  • September 8 » World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the armistice with Italy.

Day of death October 29, 1944

• The temperature on October 29, 1944 was between 2.7 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  • June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
  • August 21 » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 15 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
  • October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1949 » George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
• 1953 » William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)