Dreyer Tree » Johanna Jacomina Jacoba Roets (1903-)

Birthday January 9, 1903

• The temperature on January 9, 1903 was between 3.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
  • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and weightlifter († 1942)
• 1900 » Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author († 1939)
• 1901 » Chic Young, American cartoonist († 1973)
• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)