Eijsermans family tree » Hendrikus "Harrie" van Gils (1882-1931)

Day of marriage November 27, 1905

• The temperature on November 27, 1905 was between 2.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
  • September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
  • November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Day of death February 4, 1931

• The temperature on February 4, 1931 was between -3.0 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
  • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
  • July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
  • August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
  • September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)