Family tree Doumen Stokkem » Joannes Theodorus Wilhelmus Jacobs (1913-)

Birthday May 10, 1913

• The temperature on May 10, 1913 was between 9.1 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 17.8 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
  • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
  • March 4 » The United States Department of Labor is formed.
  • March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
  • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 2000)
• 1909 » Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player († 1978)
• 1911 » Bel Kaufman, American author and educator († 2014)
• 1915 » Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2003)
• 1916 » Milton Babbitt, American composer and educator († 2011)
• 1918 » T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author († 2018)