Family tree Jansen, Brandsma, Esmeijer, De Waal en Wennekes » Johanna Paulina Helena Maria van Basten Batenburg (1901-)

Birthday July 8, 1901

• The temperature on July 8, 1901 was between 11.5 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1898 » Melville Ruick, American actor († 1972)
• 1900 » George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author († 1959)
• 1904 » Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic († 2008)
• 1905 » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director († 1997)
• 1906 » Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place († 2005)