Genealogy Koldewijn - van Delden - Solleveld - Miggels - Vellekoop - Jurriens » Jantina Johanna Gerarda de Jonge (1912-)

Birthday June 24, 1912

• The temperature on June 24, 1912 was between 9.8 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). 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 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.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1911 » Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver († 1995)
• 1911 » Portia White, Canadian opera singer († 1968)
• 1912 » Brian Johnston, English sportscaster and author († 1994)
• 1912 » Mary Wesley, English author († 2002)
• 1913 » Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier († 2002)