Database Van Broekhoven » Frederik Johannes van Bokhoven (1914-)

Birthday June 16, 1914

• The temperature on June 16, 1914 was between 11.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • 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.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Albert Chartier, Canadian illustrator († 2004)
• 1912 » Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health († 1998)
• 1914 » Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher († 2020)
• 1915 » John Tukey, American mathematician and academic († 2000)
• 1915 » Marga Faulstich, German glass chemist († 1998)
• 1917 » Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece († 1999)