Database Van Broekhoven » Arie Kortman (1907-)

Birthday January 30, 1907

• The temperature on January 30, 1907 was between 0.4 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar († 1983)
• 1910 » Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence († 2000)
• 1911 » Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player († 1989)
• 1912 » Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author († 1989)
• 1912 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian († 1984)
• 1912 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic († 1988)