Family tree Eilander » Evertje Martina Mondria (1912-)

Birthday May 20, 1912

• The temperature on May 20, 1912 was between 10.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright († 1995)
• 1911 » Gardner Fox, American author († 1986)
• 1913 » Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer († 1996)
• 1913 » William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard († 2001)
• 1915 » Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1981)
• 1915 » Peter Copley, English actor († 2008)