Eijsermans family tree » Coleta Joanna Maria Verrijt (1915-)

Birthday August 2, 1915

• The temperature on August 2, 1915 was between 13.9 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic († 1980)
• 1914 » Beatrice Straight, American actress († 2001)
• 1914 » Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2012)
• 1914 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet († 1988)
• 1915 » Gary Merrill, American actor († 1990)
• 1916 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor († 1990)