De bomen van Kreijkes » Gerhard Hendrik Böhmer (1901-)

Birthday March 16, 1901

• The temperature on March 16, 1901 was between 5.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Antonio Donghi, Italian painter († 1963)
• 1897 » Conrad Nagel, American actor († 1970)
• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)
• 1903 » Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan († 2001)