Eijsermans family tree » Pietronella Antonia Thomassen (1914-)

Birthday March 12, 1914

• The temperature on March 12, 1914 was between -0.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
  • November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic († 2006)
• 1912 » Willie Hall, English international footballer († 1967)
• 1913 » Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author († 2010)
• 1913 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1915 » Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist († 1991)