Kennedy Family Tree » Robert Elmer Pearson (1901-1968)

Birthday July 25, 1901

• The temperature on July 25, 1901 was between 14.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (48%). 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 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • 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.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 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.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Lila Lee, American actress and singer († 1973)
• 1901 » Mohammed Helmy, Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d.1982)
• 1901 » Ruth Krauss, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1902 » Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author († 1983)
• 1905 » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1905 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver († 1977)