Family tree Gob » Joséphine Anne Armandine Ghislaine TOUSSAINT (1902-)

Birthday February 5, 1902

• The average temperature on February 5, 1902 was -0.5 °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.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Dirk Stikker, Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO († 1979)
• 1900 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1965)
• 1903 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1975)
• 1903 » Koto Matsudaira, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations († 1994)
• 1906 » John Carradine, American actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician († 2007)