Genealogy Harssema » (Stillborn) van der NOORD (1914-1914)

Birthday April 8, 1914

• The temperature on April 8, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
  • August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
  • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)
• 1915 » Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer († 2007)