Family tree Theo Bijl » Jan de Visser (1902-)

Birthday February 22, 1902

• The temperature on February 22, 1902 was between -2.3 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (72%). 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.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • 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

• 1897 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general († 1947)
• 1899 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1900 » Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer († 1983)
• 1903 » Frank P. Ramsey, English economist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1930)
• 1903 » Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright († 1990)
• 1906 » Constance Stokes, Australian painter († 1991)