Kramer Family Tree » Peter Rudolf Pettersen (1914-1987)

Birthday June 22, 1914

• The temperature on June 22, 1914 was between 10.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
  • August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1915 » Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach († 2001)
• 1915 » Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer († 1999)
• 1915 » Randolph Hokanson, American pianist († 2018)
• 1915 » Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic († 2000)