Ancestors Jacques Hendrik Gazan » Pieter Jacobus Vercouteren (1903-)

Birthday January 12, 1903

• The temperature on January 12, 1903 was between -4.8 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Karl Künstler, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1903 » Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) († 1995)
• 1903 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
• 1904 » Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1972)
• 1905 » James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist and academic († 1997)
• 1905 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish author, poet, and philosopher († 1975)