Bezzeg family tree » Mary Elizabeth Bezzeg (1912-)

Birthday August 26, 1912

• The temperature on August 26, 1912 was between 11.5 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 20.5 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)
• 1910 » Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1911 » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1914 » Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet († 2008)
• 1914 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator († 1984)