Family tree Menting » Maria Elisabeth van Elen (1902-)

Birthday December 29, 1902

• The temperature on December 29, 1902 was between 0.9 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.3 °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.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)
• 1902 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1903 » Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter († 1962)
• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)