Ket Stamboom » Johanna Margaretha Maria Veltmaat (1914-)

Birthday April 6, 1914

• The temperature on April 6, 1914 was between 7.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 14.5 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
  • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
  • September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
  • October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
  • October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
  • October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1913 » Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic († 1993)
• 1915 » Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer († 1990)
• 1916 » Phil Leeds, American actor († 1998)
• 1916 » Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author († 1987)
• 1917 » Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author († 2011)