Eijsermans family tree » Cornelis Petrus van Gurp (1868-1927)

Day of death July 13, 1927

• The temperature on July 13, 1927 was between 13.5 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)