Eijsermans family tree » Cornelis Johannes Henricus "Cees" Spape (1924-2005)

Birthday August 8, 1924

• The temperature on August 8, 1924 was between 8.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1922 » Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator († 1988)
• 1922 » Rory Calhoun, American actor († 1999)
• 1922 » Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini († 1985)
• 1925 » Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina († 2003)
• 1925 » Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director († 2014)