Family tree Oving » Frederikus Johannes HEERSINK (1903-)

Birthday September 23, 1903

• The temperature on September 23, 1903 was between 7.5 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (34%). 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 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Bill Stone, English soldier († 2009)
• 1901 » Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1902 » Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic († 2003)
• 1903 » Cec Fifield, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1957)
• 1904 » Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator († 1966)
• 1906 » Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom († 1995)