Stambomen Quist » Cornelis Bernardus Quist (1914-)

Birthday July 29, 1914

• The temperature on July 29, 1914 was between 12.4 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Erich Priebke, German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre († 2013)
• 1914 » Irwin Corey, American actor and activist († 2017)
• 1915 » Bruce R. McConkie, American colonel and religious leader († 1985)
• 1915 » Francis W. Sargent, American soldier and politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts († 1998)
• 1916 » Budd Boetticher, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1916 » Charlie Christian, American guitarist († 1942)