Family tree Van Weeghel » Frans van Olst (1903-1984)

Birthday July 29, 1903

• The temperature on July 29, 1903 was between 11.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist († 1986)
• 1904 » J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages († 1993)
• 1904 » Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher († 1982)
• 1905 » Clara Bow, American actress († 1965)
• 1905 » Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1961)
• 1905 » Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator († 2006)