Family tree Jacobs » Derkje Elisabeth Wijtmans (1901-)

Birthday October 3, 1901

• The temperature on October 3, 1901 was between 12.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °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.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
  • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator († 1944)
• 1898 » Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1899 » Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer († 1966)
• 1900 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1904 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician († 1998)