Family tree Klavers » Jan Westerhof (1919-< 2018)

Birthday January 25, 1919

• The temperature on January 25, 1919 was between -1.2 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
  • June 15 » John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
  • October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
  • November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
  • December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Pop Ivy, American football player and coach († 2003)
• 1917 » Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1917 » Jânio Quadros, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd President of Brazil († 1992)
• 1919 » Edwin Newman, American journalist and author († 2010)
• 1921 » Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist († 2005)
• 1921 » Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic († 2010)