Eijsermans family tree » Adriana Johanna Maria Kanen (1914-)

Birthday July 31, 1914

• The temperature on July 31, 1914 was between 12.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
  • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
  • August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer († 1997)