Eijsermans family tree » Sjoerd Keekstra (1887-1972)

Day of marriage May 15, 1909

• The temperature on May 15, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Day of death March 17, 1972

• The temperature on March 17, 1972 was between 1.0 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
  • February 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
  • June 15 » Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
  • September 30 » Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
  • December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
  • December 23 » The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)