1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Gerardus Bernardus Imming (1923-)

Birthday April 6, 1923

• The temperature on April 6, 1923 was between -0.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
  • April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
  • December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1920 » Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun († 2009)
• 1921 » Wilbur Thompson, American shot putter († 2013)
• 1922 » Gordon Chater, English-Australian comedian and actor († 1999)
• 1923 » Herb Thomas, American race car driver († 2000)
• 1926 » Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor († 1990)