Eijsermans family tree » Hendrik Anna van Engelen (1907-)

Birthday April 18, 1907

• The temperature on April 18, 1907 was between 1.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1905 » George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman († 1990)
• 1907 » Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor († 1995)
• 1911 » Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and racing driver († 1992)
• 1911 » Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic († 2011)