Family tree van Mourik/Maurik » de Munck (1912)

Birthday January 26, 1912

• The temperature on January 26, 1912 was between -1.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator, director, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1911 » Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor († 2002)
• 1911 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1913 » Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer († 1990)
• 1914 » Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire († 2006)
• 1915 » William Hopper, American actor († 1970)