Genealogy Rijerkerk - Bronner » Johannes BIJL (1914-)

Birthday May 23, 1914

• The temperature on May 23, 1914 was between 11.6 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). 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.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
  • August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
  • December 15 » World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Jean Françaix, French pianist and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » John Payne, American actor († 1989)
• 1914 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson († 1981)
• 1914 » Celestine Sibley, American journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Harold Hitchcock, English visionary landscape artist († 2009)
• 1915 » S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare († 2014)