Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Marshall Alfred Pierce (1901-)

Birthday July 22, 1901

• The temperature on July 22, 1901 was between 15.2 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). 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 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach († 1978)
• 1893 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author († 1990)
• 1895 » León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat († 1976)
• 1898 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1943)
• 1899 » Sobhuza II of Swaziland († 1982)
• 1908 » Amy Vanderbilt, American author († 1974)