Anthony Willis family tree » Enrice Marguerite Ellingham (1912-1998)

Birthday January 21, 1912

• The temperature on January 21, 1912 was between -0.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington († 2011)
• 1910 » Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer († 1975)
• 1910 » Rosa Kellner, German athlete († 1984)
• 1911 » Dick Garrard, Australian wrestler († 2003)
• 1911 » Lee Yoo-hyung, Korean footballer and manager († 2003)
• 1912 » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)