January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
Day of marriage May 9, 1947
The temperature on May 9, 1947 was between 11.4 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Nabestaanden Sierd Eizenga , "Family tree Eizenga-Vis", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eizenga-vis/I7690.php : accessed February 3, 2026), "Peter Jans Vis (1902-)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.