De bomen van Kreijkes » Dikus Hermannus Eeftink (1901-)

Birthday June 17, 1901

• The temperature on June 17, 1901 was between 5.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). 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 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.
  • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
  • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator († 1972)
• 1900 » Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent († 2000)
• 1900 » Martin Bormann, German politician († 1945)
• 1902 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer († 1982)
• 1902 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1903 » Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie († 1977)