Eijsermans family tree » Anna Maria van Son (1904-)

Birthday October 13, 1904

• The temperature on October 13, 1904 was between 3.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)
• 1905 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1905 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1987)