Family tree Klavers » Johan Herman Jannink (1901-)

Birthday August 26, 1901

• The temperature on August 26, 1901 was between 11.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.8 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 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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom († 1970)
• 1901 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China († 1972)
• 1901 » Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet († 1985)
• 1901 » Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer († 1945)
• 1901 » Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader († 1972)
• 1901 » Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam († 1987)