Genealogy Goudsblom » Frederikus Johannes Josephus Ouwens (1910-1990)

Birthday January 22, 1910

• The temperature on January 22, 1910 was between -2.3 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » Ann Sothern, American actress and singer († 2001)
• 1909 » Martha Norelius, Swedish-born American swimmer († 1955)
• 1909 » Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican racing driver, polo player, and diplomat († 1965)
• 1909 » U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General († 1974)
• 1911 » Bruno Kreisky, Austrian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria († 1990)