Family tree Klavers » Gerrit Jan Grootoonk (1911-)

Birthday December 17, 1911

• The temperature on December 17, 1911 was between 5.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1910 » Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author († 1999)
• 1910 » Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player († 1988)
• 1912 » Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council († 2012)
• 1913 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins († 1967)
• 1914 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer († 2005)