Genealogy Visser, van der Horst, Baas, van Steenis » Maria Visser (1912-)

Birthday March 26, 1912

• The temperature on March 26, 1912 was between 9.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1911 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic († 1960)
• 1911 » Lennart Atterwall, Swedish javelin thrower († 2001)
• 1911 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet († 1983)
• 1913 » Jacqueline de Romilly, Jewish Franco-Greek philologist, author, and scholar († 2010)
• 1913 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic († 1996)