Family tree familie´s Kalisvaart & de Kat » Helena Maria Hendriks (1906-)

Birthday March 25, 1906

• The temperature on March 25, 1906 was between -2.7 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress († 1998)
• 1904 » Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist († 1967)
• 1905 » Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel († 1944)
• 1906 » A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » Jean Sablon, French singer and actor († 1994)
• 1908 » David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)