Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia Johanna Gerarda van Rijswijk (1902-)

Birthday December 5, 1902

• The temperature on December 5, 1902 was between -11.2 °C and -4.7 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. 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.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and author († 1980)
• 1901 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1966)
• 1901 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1902 » Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1902 » Strom Thurmond, American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina († 2003)
• 1903 » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer († 2011)