Pals family tree » Emma Willemsen (1912-)

Birthday August 30, 1912

• The temperature on August 30, 1912 was between 11.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator († 1968)
• 1910 » Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot († 1944)
• 1912 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain († 2011)
• 1913 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1915 » Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland († 2013)