Eijsermans family tree » Helena Elisa Henrica Catharina Panken (1914-)

Birthday January 12, 1914

• The temperature on January 12, 1914 was between -6.9 °C and -1.3 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • March 7 » Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
  • May 25 » The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
  • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer († 1991)
• 1914 » Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and psychologist († 1979)
• 1915 » Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop and academic († 2013)
• 1915 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer († 1997)
• 1916 » Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2018)
• 1916 » Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and inventor († 2013)