Eijsermans family tree » Jacoba Maria van Meel (1894-1949)

Day of marriage October 8, 1921

• The temperature on October 8, 1921 was between 9.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
  • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
  • September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
  • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Day of death March 19, 1949

• The temperature on March 19, 1949 was between -2.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • 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.
  • September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)