Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Stubert /Cottle Miner (1901-)

Birthday April 8, 1901

• The temperature on April 8, 1901 was between 5.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (58%). 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.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • 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

• 1900 » Marie Byles, Australian solicitor († 1979)
• 1902 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer († 1924)
• 1902 » Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano († 1974)
• 1904 » Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer († 1970)
• 1904 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer († 1978)