Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk » Gerritje Aalberts (1912-)

Birthday August 19, 1912

• The temperature on August 19, 1912 was between 10.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • 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.
  • April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Quentin Bell, English historian and author († 1996)
• 1910 » Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church († 1946)
• 1911 » Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author († 2004)
• 1913 » John Argyris, Greek engineer and academic († 2004)
• 1913 » Peter Kemp, Indian-English soldier and author († 1993)
• 1913 » Richard Simmons, American actor († 2003)