Genealogy Stoop uit Dordrecht » Andries Pieter van DORSSER (1912-)

Birthday July 12, 1912

• The temperature on July 12, 1912 was between 15.8 °C and 31.4 °C and averaged 24.2 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (76%). 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 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.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart († 1999)
• 1909 » Joe DeRita, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator († 2010)
• 1911 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer († 1993)
• 1913 » Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1914 » Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer († 1971)