Van Lerberghe genealogy » Barbe Joséphine GRAAS (1901-)

Birthday August 29, 1901

• The temperature on August 29, 1901 was between 8.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). 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.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)