Eijsermans family tree » Marinus Johannes Gregorius Knapen (1912-)

Birthday June 10, 1912

• The temperature on June 10, 1912 was between 9.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • 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.
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager († 1958)
• 1911 » Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist († 1984)
• 1911 » Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1912 » Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec († 1980)
• 1913 » Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1993)
• 1913 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer († 2007)