Ancestral Trails 2016 » Elsie Margaret DENNIS (1902-)

Birthday October 19, 1902

• The temperature on October 19, 1902 was between -0.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%). 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 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player († 1991)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)
• 1900 » Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1901 » Arleigh Burke, American admiral († 1996)
• 1903 » Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor († 1971)