Eijsermans family tree » Petrus Joannes Vermeer (1898-1961)

Day of marriage August 17, 1921

• The temperature on August 17, 1921 was between 12.6 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Day of death July 22, 1961

• The temperature on July 22, 1961 was between 12.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
  • April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
  • April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
  • April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
  • September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
  • December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1909)
• 1950 » William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
• 1970 » George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)