Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Levenloos Aalten (1916-)

Birthday April 22, 1916

• The temperature on April 22, 1916 was between 5.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer († 2008)
• 1914 » Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright († 2002)
• 1916 » Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic († 2013)
• 1916 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor († 1999)
• 1917 » Sidney Nolan, Australian painter († 1992)
• 1917 » Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina († 2016)