Descendants Frederik Tuijl omgeving Sluipwijk » Neeltje Margaretha Visser (1912-)

Birthday February 16, 1912

• The temperature on February 16, 1912 was between 2.7 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director († 1982)
• 1909 » Richard McDonald, Irish-American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1998)
• 1914 » Jimmy Wakely, American country music singer-songwriter and actor († 1982)
• 1916 » Bill Doggett, African-American pianist and composer († 1996)