Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Johanna Schell (1914-)

Birthday March 24, 1914

• The temperature on March 24, 1914 was between 4.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera († 2006)
• 1912 » Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist († 2010)
• 1915 » Eugène Martin, French racing driver († 2006)
• 1916 » Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author († 2006)
• 1916 » Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic († 2010)
• 1917 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)