Ancestors Jordi Martijn van Os » Pieternella Flipse (1901-)

Birthday February 27, 1901

• The temperature on February 27, 1901 was between 1.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. 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.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
  • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
  • November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
  • 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

• 1899 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin († 1978)
• 1901 » Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic († 1980)
• 1901 » Kotama Okada, Japanese religious leader († 1974)
• 1902 » Gene Sarazen, American golfer and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1902 » John Steinbeck, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1902 » Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace († 1998)