Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Henderina van Rossen (1901-)

Birthday August 20, 1901

• The temperature on August 20, 1901 was between 11.5 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet († 1970)
• 1898 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian, journalist, author, and playwright († 1973)
• 1901 » Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1905 » Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist († 1964)
• 1905 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher († 1973)
• 1905 » Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1969)