Family tree Ham » Cornelia Margrieta Oppedijk (1912-)

Birthday July 13, 1912

• The temperature on July 13, 1912 was between 19.2 °C and 29.8 °C and averaged 24.2 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper († 1993)
• 1910 » Loren Pope, American journalist and author († 2008)
• 1911 » Bob Steele (broadcaster), American radio personality († 2002)
• 1913 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality († 1982)
• 1913 » Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman († 2012)
• 1915 » Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator († 1989)