Genealogy Spierenburg » Helena Maria Kalkman (1907-)

Birthday July 31, 1907

• The temperature on July 31, 1907 was between 10.2 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer and soldier († 1989)
• 1904 » Brett Halliday, American engineer, surveyor, and author († 1977)
• 1909 » Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian theorist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » George Liberace, American violinist († 1983)
• 1912 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer († 2008)
• 1912 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)