Genealogy Harssema » Hendrika Cornelia SIKKEMA (1914-)

Birthday September 22, 1914

• The temperature on September 22, 1914 was between 7.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author († 2006)
• 1912 » Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Martha Scott, American actress († 2003)
• 1913 » Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator († 2000)
• 1915 » Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer († 2012)
• 1918 » Hans Scholl, German activist († 1943)