Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Willem Albert Ooms (1903-)

Birthday December 2, 1903

• The temperature on December 2, 1903 was between -2.3 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (72%). 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.
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
  • November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor († 1970)
• 1899 » John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot († 1952)
• 1900 » Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 († 1993)
• 1900 » Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor († 1985)
• 1901 » Raimundo Orsi, Argentinian-Italian footballer († 1986)
• 1906 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer († 1977)