Eijsermans family tree » Johanna van Diessen (1821-1909)

Day of marriage July 20, 1865

• The temperature on July 20, 1865 was about 18.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.

Day of death June 19, 1909

• The temperature on June 19, 1909 was between 8.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (14%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)
• 1903 » Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
• 1918 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
• 1922 » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)