Family tree Van Willigen » Adriana Geertruida van Willigen (1902-> 1940)

Birthday August 5, 1902

• The temperature on August 5, 1902 was between 8.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (68%). 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.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator († 1988)
• 1901 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician († 2000)
• 1904 » Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist († 1997)
• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1906 » Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)