Family tree Denneman » Cornelis Johannes Denneman (1912-)

Birthday March 15, 1912

• The temperature on March 15, 1912 was between 7.2 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová, Czech painter († 1986)
• 1912 » Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1982)
• 1912 » Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and author († 1979)
• 1913 » Jack Fairman, English race car driver († 2002)
• 1913 » Macdonald Carey, American actor († 1994)
• 1916 » Frank Coghlan, Jr., American actor and pilot († 2009)