Eijsermans family tree » Louise Wilhelmina Rosalia Maria Johanna Corthauts (1901-)

Birthday July 29, 1901

• The temperature on July 29, 1901 was between 12.2 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1988)
• 1899 » Walter Beall, American baseball player († 1959)
• 1900 » Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader († 1964)
• 1900 » Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1976)
• 1900 » Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist († 1986)
• 1900 » Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist († 1980)