Family tree Appelboom » Adriana Maria Esther "Jeanne" APPELBOOM (1912-)

Birthday January 16, 1912

• The temperature on January 16, 1912 was between -4.2 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic († 1994)
• 1910 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1974)
• 1911 » Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile († 1982)
• 1911 » Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricketer († 1979)
• 1911 » Roger Lapébie, French cyclist († 1996)
• 1914 » Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator († 1992)