Familie Doevendans » Johanna KEMPER (1902-)

Birthday February 10, 1902

• The temperature on February 10, 1902 was between -3.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (35%). 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 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator († 1992)
• 1902 » Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1903 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager († 1939)
• 1903 » Waldemar Hoven, German physician († 1948)
• 1904 » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1963)
• 1905 » Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics († 1964)