Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus Henricus van den Dries (1901-)

Birthday August 19, 1901

• The temperature on August 19, 1901 was between 11.2 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (75%). 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 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

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• 1899 » Colleen Moore, American actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian († 2001)
• 1900 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer († 1962)
• 1902 » Ogden Nash, American poet († 1971)
• 1903 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer († 1978)