Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Hendrik Gideon Scholtz PRETORIUS (1912-)

Birthday November 14, 1912

• The temperature on November 14, 1912 was between 3.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Eric Malpass, English author († 1996)
• 1910 » Rosemary DeCamp, American actress and singer († 2001)
• 1912 » Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist († 1979)
• 1912 » Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge († 2003)
• 1914 » Ken Carson, American Western singer († 1994)
• 1915 » Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach († 2001)