Eijsermans family tree » Petronella Cornelia Couwenberg (1914-)

Birthday July 27, 1914

• The temperature on July 27, 1914 was between 9.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
  • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
  • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient († 2000)
• 1914 » August Sang, Estonian poet and translator († 1969)
• 1915 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot († 1961)
• 1915 » Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor († 1982)
• 1916 » Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer († 2007)