Descendants Geurt Reijers van Tuijl omgeving Ochten » Hendrik van Schutterhoef (1907-)

Birthday April 13, 1907

• The temperature on April 13, 1907 was between 2.9 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1987)
• 1905 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey († 1964)
• 1906 » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1991)
• 1906 » Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1907 » Harold Stassen, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota († 2001)
• 1909 » Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist († 2001)