Klatt Genealogie » Carel Heinrich "Carel" Bergisch (1912-1992)

Birthday January 14, 1912

• The temperature on January 14, 1912 was between -1.4 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (70%). 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.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • 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 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Brenda Forbes, English-American actress († 1996)
• 1909 » Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1911 » Anatoly Rybakov, Russian-American author († 1998)
• 1912 » Tillie Olsen, American short story writer († 2007)
• 1914 » Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier and actor († 2002)
• 1914 » Selahattin Ülkümen, Turkish diplomat († 2003)