Genealogy Groenendijk- van Noord- Fris- van Kempen. » Maarten van Welie (1902-)

Birthday May 16, 1902

• The temperature on May 16, 1902 was between 6.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)
• 1903 » Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer († 1992)
• 1905 » Henry Fonda, American actor († 1982)
• 1906 » Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer († 1991)