Genealogy Van Tunen » Willem Heijne (1901-)

Birthday July 10, 1901

• The temperature on July 10, 1901 was between 13.8 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (64%). 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.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • 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 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • 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

• 1899 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist († 1978)
• 1899 » John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1936)
• 1900 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter († 1993)
• 1900 » Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic († 1979)
• 1902 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist († 1989)