Genealogy Van Raam » Maria Alida Mantel (1901-)

Birthday May 27, 1901

• The temperature on May 27, 1901 was between 10.0 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (51%). 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.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • 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

• 1897 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1898 » David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer († 1976)
• 1899 » Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player († 1993)
• 1900 » Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp († 1964)
• 1900 » Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator († 1933)
• 1904 » Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist († 1997)