Family tree De Hoon » Augustinus Johannes Antonius de Roij (1903-)

Birthday October 11, 1903

• The temperature on October 11, 1903 was between 5.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.0 °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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
  • July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist († 1982)
• 1897 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general († 1982)
• 1899 » Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1901 » Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician († 1961)
• 1902 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician († 1979)
• 1905 » Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur († 1999)