Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » levenloos geboren kind van Arie WAALBOER (1917-1917)

Birthday October 8, 1917

• The temperature on October 8, 1917 was between 7.0 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 21.4 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
  • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Billy Conn, American boxer († 1993)
• 1917 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1976)
• 1917 » Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1917 » Walter Lord, American historian and author († 2002)
• 1918 » Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician († 2012)
• 1918 » Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)