Eijsermans family tree » Maria Johanna van Dun (1908-1949)

Day of marriage May 14, 1935

• The temperature on May 14, 1935 was between 1.9 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 10.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • April 8 » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
  • April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
  • December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
  • December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death September 11, 1949

• The temperature on September 11, 1949 was between 12.3 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
  • April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
  • July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian physician, journalist, and politician, Soviet Ambassador to France (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1949 » Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Jan Smuts, South African field marshal and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1870)
• 1952 » Alfrēds Riekstiņš, Latvian military officer and freedom fighter († 1913)
• 1956 » Billy Bishop, Canadian colonel and pilot (b. 1894)