Eijsermans family tree » Maria Adriana Eustolia van Haaren (1915-)

Birthday April 25, 1915

• The temperature on April 25, 1915 was between 7.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain († 1944)
• 1914 » Ross Lockridge Jr., American author and academic († 1948)
• 1915 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author († 1978)
• 1916 » Jerry Barber, American golfer († 1994)
• 1917 » Ella Fitzgerald, American singer († 1996)
• 1917 » Jean Lucas, French racing driver († 2003)