Family tree Joop Dales » Femmigje van der STEEG (1912-)

Birthday September 29, 1912

• The temperature on September 29, 1912 was between 8.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist († 1977)
• 1910 » Virginia Bruce, American actress († 1982)
• 1911 » Charles Court, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia († 2007)
• 1912 » Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1913 » Stanley Kramer, American director and producer († 2001)
• 1913 » Trevor Howard, English actor († 1988)