Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Gijsbert Kraai (1914-)

Birthday June 11, 1914

• The temperature on June 11, 1914 was between 9.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1913 » Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress († 2013)
• 1913 » Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager († 1970)
• 1914 » Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic († 2012)
• 1915 » Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress († 1997)
• 1915 » Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist († 1999)