Chapman-Nash Family Tree » Stella Margaret Goodwin (1917-1975)

Birthday March 11, 1917

• The temperature on March 11, 1917 was between 2.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
  • November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
  • December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1915 » J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist († 1990)
• 1915 » Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer († 2004)
• 1916 » Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator († 1983)
• 1916 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1920 » Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)