Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Hendrik Klaas Wieringa (1916-)

Birthday June 28, 1916

• The temperature on June 28, 1916 was between 10.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
  • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer († 2007)
• 1913 » George Lloyd, English soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1913 » Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1914 » Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal († 1992)
• 1917 » A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright († 2020)
• 1918 » William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1999)