Family tree de Crom » Anna Maria Helena van Zundert (1908-)

Birthday April 4, 1908

• The temperature on April 4, 1908 was between 4.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Erika Nõva, Estonian architect and engineer († 1987)
• 1905 » Eugène Bozza, French composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1906 » Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Jewish Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress († 1968)
• 1906 » John Cameron Swayze, American journalist († 1995)
• 1907 » Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales († 1981)
• 1910 » Đặng Văn Ngữ, Vietnamese physician and academic († 1967)