Gerretsen (Gerritsen) Genealogie » Frederik Marie Gerritsen (1916-< 1990)

Birthday December 22, 1916

• The temperature on December 22, 1916 was between 1.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
  • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
  • November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » Giorgio Oberweger, Italian discus thrower and hurdler († 1998)
• 1915 » Barbara Billingsley, American actress († 2010)
• 1915 » Phillip Glasier, English author and academic († 2000)
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