Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Mila / Myla Leona Viola Hackett-Robillard (1911-1998)

Birthday April 22, 1911

• The temperature on April 22, 1911 was between 8.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian († 2001)
• 1909 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Sephardic Jewish-Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1909 » Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 2000)
• 1910 » Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic († 1971)
• 1912 » Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1912 » Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer († 1953)