Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Andrew Stanley Abrahamson (1912-1969)

Birthday February 28, 1912

• The temperature on February 28, 1912 was between 8.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet († 1995)
• 1911 » Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1915 » Ketti Frings, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1915 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1915 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian († 1977)