De geboren Randwijkers » Cornelis Lambertus Hermanus Wels (1901-)

Birthday April 23, 1901

• The temperature on April 23, 1901 was between 7.6 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (83%). 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.
  • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
  • 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.
  • November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
  • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1899 » Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult († 1982)
• 1900 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1959)
• 1900 » Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director († 1996)
• 1901 » E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist († 1988)
• 1902 » Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)