Schel/Van Leur family tree and related branches » Johan Herman Kommers (1903-)

Birthday September 30, 1903

• The temperature on September 30, 1903 was between 12.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). 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 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1901 » Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader († 1966)
• 1904 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic († 1971)
• 1905 » Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1990)
• 1905 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1906 » Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress († 1996)