Genealogy Sanen » Anna Maria Norberta Bervoets (1907-)

Birthday April 12, 1907

• The temperature on April 12, 1907 was between 2.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial († 2003)
• 1907 » Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic († 1990)
• 1908 » Ida Pollock, English author and painter († 2013)
• 1908 » Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot and general († 2006)
• 1910 » Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher († 2018)
• 1910 » Irma Rapuzzi, French politician († 2018)