Klein Eyckenstein » Johannes Cornelis "Jan" van Eyck (1913-)

Birthday May 28, 1913

• The temperature on May 28, 1913 was between 12.8 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
  • June 4 » Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Bob Crisp, South African cricketer († 1994)
• 1911 » Thora Hird, English actress († 2003)
• 1912 » Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician († 1992)
• 1912 » Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1912 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer († 1981)
• 1914 » W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English captain and pilot († 1996)