Eijsermans family tree » Elisabeth Jacoba Adriana van Gastel (1904-)

Birthday April 12, 1904

• The temperature on April 12, 1904 was between -1.5 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (36%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Lowell Stockman, American farmer and politician († 1962)
• 1902 » Louis Beel, Dutch academic and politician, 36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1903 » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1907 » Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial († 2003)
• 1907 » Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic († 1990)
• 1908 » Ida Pollock, English author and painter († 2013)