Family tree van de families Van Tilburg en Ferwerda » Jacob de Rooij (1902-)

Birthday May 16, 1902

• The temperature on May 16, 1902 was between 6.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)
• 1903 » Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer († 1992)
• 1905 » Henry Fonda, American actor († 1982)
• 1906 » Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer († 1991)