Genealogy Wille-Schumann » Maria Dominica Riemkens (1907-)

Birthday August 4, 1907

• The temperature on August 4, 1907 was between 15.2 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • 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 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Helen Kane, American singer and actress († 1966)
• 1904 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright († 1969)
• 1905 » Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar († 1972)
• 1906 » Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer († 1973)
• 1908 » Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor († 1994)
• 1909 » Glenn Cunningham, American runner and academic († 1988)