Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmina Maria Vos (1904-)

Birthday January 21, 1904

• The temperature on January 21, 1904 was between -3.5 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Raymond Suvigny, French weightlifter († 1945)
• 1903 » William Lyon, American film editor († 1974)
• 1904 » John Porter, Canadian ice hockey player († 1997)
• 1904 » Puck van Heel, Dutch footballer († 1984)
• 1905 » Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A. († 1957)
• 1905 » Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas († 1978)