When Mine Nohr was born on 17 April 1897, in Sebber, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark, her father, Carl Sorensen Nohr, was 35 and her mother, Ane Martine Mortensen, was 32.
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World War I. Denmark remains neutral throughout the war.
The United States take possession of the Virgin Islands. The islands are purchased from Denmark for $25 million the year before.
Denmark signs 10-year non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany.
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Nor, from Old Norse nór ‘narrows’, denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake, or a short stream leading from a lake into a river.
German: probably a habitational name from Nohra in Thuringia, originally named with elements meaning ‘marshy stream’; or, in Holstein, a topographic name from Nohr ‘stagnant water, lake’.
German (Nöhr): from a shortened form of medieval personal name Apollinaris (a derivative of Greek Apollōn). This name was borne by a Christian martyr whose cult was centered in Remagen (Rhineland), where it is found in old forms such as Pollenoris, Bolinoris.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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