Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Joseph van Leunen (1902-)

Birthday October 31, 1902

• The temperature on October 31, 1902 was between 0.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). 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.
  • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Constance Savery, English author († 1999)
• 1900 » Asbjørg Borgfelt, Norwegian sculptor († 1976)
• 1902 » Abraham Wald, Romanian mathematician and economist († 1950)
• 1902 » Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet († 1987)
• 1902 » Julia Lee, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist († 1958)
• 1907 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer († 1973)