Family tree Klavers » Jan Jans Scholtens (1916-< 2015)

Birthday July 19, 1916

• The temperature on July 19, 1916 was between 8.4 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
  • December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1914 » Marius Russo, American baseball player († 2005)
• 1915 » Åke Hellman, Finnish painter († 2017)
• 1916 » Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager († 2010)
• 1917 » William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 2013)
• 1919 » Patricia Medina, English-American actress († 2012)