Eijsermans family tree » Johanna Huiberdina van Loon (1903-)

Birthday October 4, 1903

• The temperature on October 4, 1903 was between 11.4 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °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 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.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • 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.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)