Genealogy Bijl » Johannes Hendrik HARMS (1912-)

Birthday August 25, 1912

• The temperature on August 25, 1912 was between 13.8 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

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