Genealogy De Haan-Hooijenga » Sietze van Houten Hendriks (1914-)

Birthday April 6, 1914

• The temperature on April 6, 1914 was between 7.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 14.5 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
  • August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1913 » Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic († 1993)
• 1915 » Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer († 1990)
• 1916 » Phil Leeds, American actor († 1998)
• 1916 » Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author († 1987)
• 1917 » Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author († 2011)