Genealogy Van Tunen » Adrianus Admiraal (1916-)

Birthday May 26, 1916

• The temperature on May 26, 1916 was between 11.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Peter Cushing, English actor († 1994)
• 1913 » Pierre Daninos, French author († 2005)
• 1914 » Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer († 2009)
• 1915 » Antonia Forest, English author († 2003)
• 1915 » Vernon Alley, American bassist († 2004)
• 1916 » Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist and author († 1972)