Family tree Klavers » Lammechina Johanna Weits (1916-< 2015)

Birthday July 25, 1916

• The temperature on July 25, 1916 was between 12.2 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
  • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Woody Strode, American football player and actor († 1994)
• 1915 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot († 1944)
• 1915 » S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician
• 1916 » Lucien Saulnier, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1917 » Fritz Honegger, Swiss lawyer and politician († 1999)
• 1918 » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor († 1986)