Database Van Broekhoven » Aalbert Kaasjager (1902-)

Birthday August 2, 1902

• The temperature on August 2, 1902 was between 6.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1900 » Helen Morgan, American actress and singer († 1941)
• 1900 » Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator († 1973)
• 1902 » Mina Rees, American mathematician (d.1997)
• 1902 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria († 1971)
• 1905 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer († 1963)