Family tree de Crom » Wijnand (1902-)

Birthday April 25, 1902

• The temperature on April 25, 1902 was between 5.8 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (97%). 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.
  • 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.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • 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 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations († 1996)
• 1900 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Mary Miles Minter, American actress († 1984)
• 1902 » Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic († 1964)
• 1903 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1987)
• 1905 » George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee († 1986)