Family tree van Bosscha, Broersma, van Dijk, van der Meulen » Albert Johan van Ek (1912-)

Birthday February 22, 1912

• The temperature on February 22, 1912 was between -2 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer († 1997)
• 1908 » John Mills, English soldier and actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela († 1981)
• 1910 » George Hunt, English international footballer, forward († 1996)
• 1914 » Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1915 » Gus Lesnevich, American boxer († 1964)