Genealogy Hoekstra, Van Berkel, Oversluizen en Van Roon » Otto Anthonius Verburgh (1914-1973)

Birthday January 4, 1914

• The temperature on January 4, 1914 was between 4.8 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
  • September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
  • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1916 » Lionel Newman, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1916 » Robert Parrish, American actor and director († 1995)
• 1920 » William Colby, American intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence († 1996)
• 1924 » Marianne Werner, German shot putter