Genealogy Schimmel » Evert Schimmel (1903-)

Birthday November 26, 1903

• The temperature on November 26, 1903 was between -0.2 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral († 1953)
• 1902 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1971)
• 1903 » Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English pianist and educator († 2014)
• 1904 » Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist († 1991)
• 1904 » K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic († 2011)
• 1905 » Bob Johnson, American baseball player († 1982)