Genealogy Harssema » Albert Jan BOERSMA (1907-)

Birthday January 22, 1907

• The temperature on January 22, 1907 was between -12.2 °C and -2.5 °C and averaged -8.1 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic († 1981)
• 1906 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet († 1936)
• 1907 » Dixie Dean, English footballer († 1980)
• 1907 » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer († 1995)
• 1908 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1908 » Prince Oana, American baseball player and manager († 1976)