Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Geertruida van den Ham (1912-)

Birthday May 22, 1912

• The temperature on May 22, 1912 was between 7.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 17.8 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator († 1988)
• 1912 » Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1913 » Dominique Rolin, Belgian author († 2012)
• 1913 » Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1914 » Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat († 2010)
• 1914 » Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet († 1993)