Descendants Lavarne » Hendrika Jacoba Ebrecht (1914-)

Birthday May 24, 1914

• The temperature on May 24, 1914 was between 7.8 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 9.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Jimmy Demaret, American golfer († 1983)
• 1913 » Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier († 1993)
• 1914 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress († 1986)
• 1916 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales († 2002)
• 1917 » Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1918 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit († 1997)