Database Van Broekhoven » Helena Susanna Roestenburg (1916-)

Birthday December 18, 1916

• The temperature on December 18, 1916 was between -0.2 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
  • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
  • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1913 » Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach († 2006)
• 1913 » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1916 » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1916 » Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic († 2008)
• 1917 » Ossie Davis, American actor and activist († 2005)