Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Hendrik van den Hardenberg (1901-)

Birthday May 8, 1901

• The temperature on May 8, 1901 was between 3.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (39%). 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.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality († 1959)
• 1899 » Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1899 » Jacques Heim, French fashion designer († 1967)
• 1901 » Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player († 1979)
• 1902 » André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Fernandel, French actor and singer († 1971)