Family tree Geerlings » Johanna Antonia Eshuis (1892-1978)

Christening day April 30, 1893

• The temperature on April 30, 1893 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
  • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Day of marriage April 30, 1919

• The temperature on April 30, 1919 was between 2.3 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • March 21 » The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

Day of death March 2, 1978

• The temperature on March 2, 1978 was between 6.4 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
  • February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
  • March 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
  • March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
  • June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
  • October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish author and critic (b. 1873)
• 1972 » Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (b. 1877)
• 1979 » Christy Ring, Irish hurler (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)