Van der Feen/Mendels/Rowe/Hesketh Family Tree » Roset Wolff (1914-)

Birthday May 5, 1914

• The temperature on May 5, 1914 was between 9.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Tyrone Power, American actor († 1958)
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