Eijsermans family tree » Hendrikus Julius Neutkens (1902-)

Birthday April 12, 1902

• The temperature on April 12, 1902 was between 4.9 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (39%). 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.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress († 1976)
• 1901 » Lowell Stockman, American farmer and politician († 1962)
• 1902 » Louis Beel, Dutch academic and politician, 36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1903 » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1907 » Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial († 2003)
• 1907 » Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic († 1990)