Family tree Severijn » Willemina Maria Moll (1917-)

Birthday November 30, 1917

• The temperature on November 30, 1917 was between 7.7 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
  • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
  • August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
  • December 2 » World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer and guitarist († 1996)
• 1915 » Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1916 » Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor († 2014)
• 1919 » Jane C. Wright, American oncologist and cancer researcher († 2013)
• 1920 » Virginia Mayo, American actress († 2005)