Genealogy Meeldijk » Jan BOES (1901-)

Birthday June 14, 1901

• The temperature on June 14, 1901 was between 7.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (17%). 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 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » June Walker, American stage and film actress († 1966)
• 1900 » Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher († 2003)
• 1903 » Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician († 1995)
• 1903 » Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1980)
• 1904 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist († 1971)
• 1905 » Steve Broidy, American businessman († 1991)