Family tree Van Willigen » Daniel Johannes van Willigen (1902-)

Birthday October 1, 1902

• The temperature on October 1, 1902 was between 5.4 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.7 °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.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Ernest Haycox, American author († 1950)
• 1900 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer († 1966)
• 1903 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver († 1970)
• 1903 » Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1904 » A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician († 1977)
• 1904 » Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1979)