Database Van Broekhoven » Anna Geertruij Apon (1902-)

Birthday July 10, 1902

• The temperature on July 10, 1902 was between 11.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). 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.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter († 1993)
• 1900 » Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic († 1979)
• 1902 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist († 1989)
• 1903 » John Wyndham, English soldier and author († 1969)
• 1903 » Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist († 1989)