Genealogy Van Tunen » Catharina Maria Nanne (1907-)

Birthday June 28, 1907

• The temperature on June 28, 1907 was between 11.7 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer († 1979)
• 1906 » Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1907 » Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer († 1983)
• 1907 » Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician († 1989)
• 1909 » Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1912 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher († 2007)