Family tree Klavers » Jan Vos (1907-)

Birthday December 25, 1907

• The temperature on December 25, 1907 was between -3.6 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1906 » Lew Grade, Baron Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer († 1998)
• 1907 » Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader († 1994)
• 1907 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel († 1988)
• 1907 » Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor († 1990)
• 1908 » Quentin Crisp, English author and illustrator († 1999)