Family tree der families Van Santvoort, Truyts, Callebaut, Cambré, Coppens, Dieltjens en aanverwanten. » Adolphus Franciscus Nevelsteen (1912-)

Birthday August 27, 1912

• The temperature on August 27, 1912 was between 10.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 30.8 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Charles Pozzi, French race car driver († 2001)
• 1909 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1959)
• 1909 » Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist († 1966)
• 1911 » Kay Walsh, English actress and dancer († 2005)
• 1912 » Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist († 1980)
• 1915 » Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)