Family tree Eilander » Willem Pleiter (1863-1932)

Day of marriage July 22, 1905

• The temperature on July 22, 1905 was between 10.5 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (57%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Day of death February 11, 1932

• The temperature on February 11, 1932 was between -7.4 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -4.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
  • May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
  • July 17 » Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
  • August 10 » A 5.1 kilograms (11lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
  • December 27 » Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)