Family tree Van Melzen-Van Melsen » Snippe (1923-1923)

Birthday May 11, 1923

• The temperature on May 11, 1923 was between 2.1 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • September 13 » Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
  • October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
  • November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician († 2016)
• 1921 » Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author († 2014)
• 1924 » Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 » Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts († 2006)
• 1927 » Bernard Fox, British actor († 2016)
• 1927 » Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar († 2007)