Family Tree Welborn » Raymond William Mayberry (1902-)

Birthday January 22, 1902

• The temperature on January 22, 1902 was between 7.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. 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 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Martti Haavio, Finnish poet and mythologist († 1973)
• 1900 » Ernst Busch, German actor and singer († 1980)
• 1902 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler, coach, and academic († 1970)
• 1903 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic († 1966)
• 1904 » Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author († 1941)
• 1904 » George Balanchine, Georgian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet († 1983)