Family tree Klavers » Albert Kalsbeek (1914-< 2013)

Birthday August 11, 1914

• The temperature on August 11, 1914 was between 12.4 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Source: Wikipedia

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