Genealogy Van den Berg-Van Doorn » Martina Huberdina Antonia Hesen (1911-)

Birthday April 12, 1911

• The temperature on April 12, 1911 was between 0.9 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Irma Rapuzzi, French politician († 2018)
• 1911 » Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer († 1976)
• 1912 » Frank Dilio, Canadian businessman († 1997)
• 1912 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia († 1988)
• 1912 » Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1975)