Genealogy Pot en Smit » JOSEPH HENDRIK ELMENDORP (1906-)

Birthday February 27, 1906

• The temperature on February 27, 1906 was between 1.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » André Leducq, French cyclist († 1980)
• 1904 » James T. Farrell, American author and poet († 1979)
• 1904 » Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic († 1996)
• 1905 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer († 1968)
• 1907 » Mildred Bailey, American singer († 1951)
• 1907 » Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander († 1999)