Ancestors Sips » Adrianus Petrus Maria van Riel (1901-)

Birthday August 10, 1901

• The temperature on August 10, 1901 was between 15.2 °C and 31.6 °C and averaged 22.6 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (62%). 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.
  • April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
  • July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » John W. Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Darby Dan Farm († 1988)
• 1900 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1994)
• 1902 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1902 » Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1902 » Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress († 1983)
• 1903 » Ward Moore, American author († 1978)