Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Gerrit van de Poll (1910-)

Birthday January 23, 1910

• The temperature on January 23, 1910 was between -4.4 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Dan Duryea, American actor and singer († 1968)
• 1907 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1910 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer († 1953)
• 1912 » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager († 2009)
• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1913 » Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association († 2007)