Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmus Andreas van der Veeken (1914-)

Birthday March 24, 1914

• The temperature on March 24, 1914 was between 5.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
  • November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera († 2006)
• 1912 » Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist († 2010)
• 1915 » Eugène Martin, French racing driver († 2006)
• 1916 » Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author († 2006)
• 1916 » Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic († 2010)
• 1917 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)