Eijsermans family tree » Jacobje de Vries (1914-)

Birthday April 4, 1914

• The temperature on April 4, 1914 was between 0.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
  • November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Dave Brown, Australian rugby league player († 1974)
• 1913 » Frances Langford, American actress and singer († 2005)
• 1913 » Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer († 1974)
• 1914 » David W. Goodall, Australian ecologist and botanist († 2018)
• 1914 » Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director († 1996)
• 1914 » Richard Coogan, American actor († 2014)