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

Birthday April 12, 1907

• The temperature on April 12, 1907 was between 2.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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).
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial († 2003)
• 1907 » Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic († 1990)
• 1908 » Ida Pollock, English author and painter († 2013)
• 1908 » Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot and general († 2006)
• 1910 » Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher († 2018)
• 1910 » Irma Rapuzzi, French politician († 2018)