Family tree Lars Werner » Drs. Alexander Johannes Marinus van GINKEL (1907-< 2010)

Birthday June 19, 1907

• The temperature on June 19, 1907 was between 12.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
  • December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Mildred Natwick, American actress († 1994)
• 1906 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1906 » Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer († 1975)
• 1906 » Walter Rauff, German SS officer († 1984)
• 1907 » Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army († 1985)
• 1909 » Osamu Dazai, Japanese author († 1948)