Descendants Heeres » Hendrika Wilhelmina Biesterbosch (1905-)

Birthday May 31, 1905

• The temperature on May 31, 1905 was between 12.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author († 1993)
• 1900 » Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete († 1981)
• 1901 » Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer († 1983)
• 1908 » Don Ameche, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 2000)
• 1911 » Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)