Eijsermans family tree » Maria Isabella Willems (1902-)

Birthday October 4, 1902

• The temperature on October 4, 1902 was between -1.7 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (29%). 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 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • 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 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)