Parentele of Jan Thonis » Evertje Bruinekool (1902-)

Birthday March 4, 1902

• The temperature on March 4, 1902 was between -1.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (81%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Charles Goren, American bridge player and author († 1991)
• 1901 » Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French author, poet, and playwright († 1937)
• 1901 » Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit († 1986)
• 1902 » Rachel Messerer, Lithuanian-Russian actress († 1993)
• 1902 » Russell Reeder, American soldier and author († 1998)
• 1903 » William C. Boyd, American immunologist and chemist († 1983)