Eijsermans family tree » Petrus Johannes van de Klundert (1903-)

Birthday October 22, 1903

• The temperature on October 22, 1903 was between 7.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%). 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 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian († 1952)
• 1903 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1904 » Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer († 1965)
• 1904 » Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer († 1950).
• 1904 » Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player († 1973).
• 1905 » Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer († 1969)