Genealogy De Wit (stad Groningen) » Augustinus Carolus Franconi (1914-)

Birthday March 1, 1914

• The temperature on March 1, 1914 was between -0.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
  • October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
  • November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1912 » Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal († 2003)
• 1914 » Harry Caray, American sportscaster († 1998)
• 1914 » Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic († 1994)
• 1917 » Robert Lowell, American poet († 1977)