Genealogy Wetting - van Wel » Hendrika van WEL (1910-)

Birthday December 16, 1910

• The temperature on December 16, 1910 was between 6.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet († 1996)
• 1907 » Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American film actress († 2011)
• 1908 » Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist († 1963)
• 1910 » Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster († 1991)
• 1913 » George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations († 1989)
• 1914 » O. Winston Link, American photographer († 2001)