Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Berendina van den Brink (1907-)

Birthday September 24, 1907

• The temperature on September 24, 1907 was between 0.6 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • August 31 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
  • December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1906 » Józef Nawrot, Polish footballer († 1982)
• 1906 » Leonard Marsh, Canadian sociologist and academic († 1982)
• 1907 » Ben Oakland, American pianist, composer, and songwriter († 1979)
• 1909 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish historian and architect († 1966)
• 1910 » Jean Servais, Belgian-French actor († 1976)