Ancestors Johanna Maria Romeijn » Helena Josephina Maria ZUIDGEEST (1912-)

Birthday March 20, 1912

• The temperature on March 20, 1912 was between 1.4 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower († 1999)
• 1911 » Alfonso García Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1912 » Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and philanthropist († 2016)
• 1913 » Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer († 1968)
• 1914 » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician († 1968)
• 1915 » Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria († 2000)