Kennedy Family Tree » Robert John Park (1917-1985)

Birthday July 12, 1917

• The temperature on July 12, 1917 was between 7.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
  • November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper († 1974)
• 1917 » Andrew Wyeth, American artist († 2009)
• 1917 » Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot († 2014)
• 1917 » Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman († 2006)
• 1918 » Mary Glen-Haig, English fencer († 2014)
• 1918 » Vivian Mason, American actress († 2009)