Eijsermans family tree » Adrianus Johannes van den Broek (1903-)

Birthday September 17, 1903

• The temperature on September 17, 1903 was between 4.9 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (49%). 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.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor († 1972)
• 1902 » Bea Miles, Australian author († 1973)
• 1903 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet († 1966)
• 1903 » Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer († 1984)
• 1903 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna († 1971)
• 1905 » Tshekedi Khama, regent of the Bamangwato tribe († 1959)