Database Van Broekhoven » Willem van der Ende (1912-)

Birthday February 15, 1912

• The temperature on February 15, 1912 was between -0.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family († 2010)
• 1910 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian, Righteous Gentile († 2008)
• 1912 » George Mikes, Jewish Hungarian-English journalist and author († 1987)
• 1913 » Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player († 1997)
• 1914 » Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician († 1972)
• 1914 » Kevin McCarthy, Jewish-Irish American actor († 2010)