Genealogy Slot » Anna Gezina (Annie) Quelle (1907-1996)

Birthday September 6, 1907

• The temperature on September 6, 1907 was between 15.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 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 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1908 » Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic († 1995)
• 1908 » Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial († 1982)
• 1909 » Michael Gordon, American actor and director († 1993)
• 1910 » Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach († 1976)
• 1911 » Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach († 2004)