Database Van Broekhoven » Franciscus Petrus Wilhelmus van der Wijngaard (1912-)

Birthday June 22, 1912

• The temperature on June 22, 1912 was between 10.2 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

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