Database Van Broekhoven » Anna Cornelia Gerarda van Hooff (1915-)

Birthday January 23, 1915

• The temperature on January 23, 1915 was between -1.6 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » Potter Stewart, American lawyer and judge († 1985)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1916 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 1979)
• 1916 » David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist († 2018)