Parentage of Gisbert Jansen Snapper » Hendrika Carolina Everdina Verhoef (1915-)

Birthday April 13, 1915

• The temperature on April 13, 1915 was between -1.8 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » Kermit Tyler, American lieutenant and pilot († 2010)
• 1914 » Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet and author († 1950)
• 1916 » Phyllis Fraser, Welsh-American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books († 2006)
• 1917 » Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense († 2011)
• 1917 » Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. († 2007)