Genealogy Uittien » Alphons Johan Kremer (1912-)

Birthday March 5, 1912

• The temperature on March 5, 1912 was between 6.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Fritz Fischer, German historian and author († 1999)
• 1910 » Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic († 1972)
• 1910 » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods († 2007)
• 1912 » Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1988)
• 1915 » Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia († 1990)
• 1915 » Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic († 2002)