Familie Bakker » Bartha Steffina Petronella Dijkhof (1911-)

Birthday March 23, 1911

• The temperature on March 23, 1911 was between 2.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Charles Werner, American cartoonist († 1997)
• 1910 » Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1910 » Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial officer and educator († 2001)
• 1912 » Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic († 1996)
• 1912 » Neil McCorkell, English-South African cricketer and coach († 2013)
• 1912 » Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer († 1977)