Genealogy Van Raam » Gerardus Raymundus Half (1912-)

Birthday June 26, 1912

• The temperature on June 26, 1912 was between 12.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player († 1956)
• 1911 » Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer († 2009)
• 1913 » Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician († 2008)
• 1913 » Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist († 2010)
• 1914 » Laurie Lee, English author and poet († 1997)
• 1914 » Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, European royalty († 2001)