Family tree der families Van Santvoort, Truyts, Callebaut, Cambré, Coppens, Dieltjens en aanverwanten. » Anna Theresia Spruyt (1902-)

Birthday December 11, 1902

• The temperature on December 11, 1902 was between -7.9 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -5.3 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). 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 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • 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.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Ronald Skirth, English soldier († 1977)
• 1899 » Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor († 1980)
• 1900 » Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director († 1993)
• 1904 » Marge, American cartoonist († 1993)
• 1905 » Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and singer († 1994)
• 1905 » Robert Henriques, English farmer, author, and broadcaster († 1967)