Family tree Menting » Hendrik Rudolph Agterberg (1911-)

Birthday July 27, 1911

• The temperature on July 27, 1911 was between 10.8 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author († 1996)
• 1910 » Julien Gracq, French author and critic († 2007)
• 1910 » Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress († 2016)
• 1911 » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet († 1981)
• 1912 » Vernon Elliott, English bassoon player, composer, and conductor († 1996)
• 1913 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient († 2000)