Chapman-Nash Family Tree » Frederick Chapman (1914-)

Birthday January 12, 1914

• The temperature on January 12, 1914 was between -7.2 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
  • November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer († 1991)
• 1914 » Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and psychologist († 1979)
• 1915 » Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop and academic († 2013)
• 1915 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer († 1997)
• 1916 » Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2018)
• 1916 » Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and inventor († 2013)