Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Gepke Hoogeveen (1912-)

Birthday March 22, 1912

• The temperature on March 22, 1912 was between 6.6 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 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.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator († 2004)
• 1912 » Karl Malden, American actor († 2009)
• 1912 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver († 1959)
• 1912 » Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor and performer († 1985)
• 1913 » Lew Wasserman, American businessman and talent agent († 2002)
• 1913 » Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon († 1983)