De geslachten Van den Born » Maria Hubertina Helena Schillings (1902-)

Birthday April 12, 1902

• The temperature on April 12, 1902 was between 4.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (39%). 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.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress († 1976)
• 1901 » Lowell Stockman, American farmer and politician († 1962)
• 1902 » Louis Beel, Dutch academic and politician, 36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1903 » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1907 » Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial († 2003)
• 1907 » Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic († 1990)