Eijsermans family tree » Cornelis Josephus Vossen (1903-)

Birthday March 13, 1903

• The temperature on March 13, 1903 was between -1.3 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (52%). 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.
  • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1899 » Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1900 » Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter († 1980)
• 1900 » Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1902 » Hans Bellmer, German-French painter and sculptor († 1975)
• 1904 » Clifford Roach, Trinidadian cricketer and footballer († 1988)