Eijsermans family tree » Jules Marten van Gompel (1908-1967)

Christening day July 23, 1908

• The temperature on July 23, 1908 was between 5.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
  • January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.

Day of death August 21, 1967

• The temperature on August 21, 1967 was between 6.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
  • June 7 » Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
  • September 1 » Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
  • October 2 » Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • October 21 » The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)