Dreyer Tree » Marthinus Johannes van Schoor (1915-)

Birthday November 10, 1915

• The temperature on November 10, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager († 1999)
• 1913 » Karl Shapiro, American poet and academic († 2000)
• 1916 » Billy May, American trumpet player and composer († 2004)
• 1916 » Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator († 2012)
• 1918 » Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1918 » Sir Yue-Kong (Y.K.) Pao, founder of Hong Kong's World-Wide Shipping Group († 1991)