Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Gerritje Bronkhorst (1912-)

Birthday November 19, 1912

• The temperature on November 19, 1912 was between -1.3 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author († 2005)
• 1910 » Adrian Conan Doyle, English racing driver, author, and explorer († 1970)
• 1912 » Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop († 2015)
• 1912 » George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1912 » Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author († 2014)
• 1915 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)