Family tree Jacobs » Marinus Vermeulen (1901-)

Birthday August 31, 1901

• The temperature on August 31, 1901 was between 13.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
  • November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)
• 1900 » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini († 1943)
• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)
• 1903 » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host († 1983)
• 1903 » Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher († 1985)
• 1905 » Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic († 2004)