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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

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)