Family tree Braun » Huiberdina Maria Dimphina Bellersen (1899-????)

Birthday August 15, 1899

• The temperature on August 15, 1899 was about 20.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
  • February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1898 » Jan Brzechwa, Polish author and poet († 1966)
• 1900 » Estelle Brody, American silent film actress († 1995)
• 1900 » Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter and educator († 1982)
• 1901 » Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 21st president of the republic of Panamá († 1988)
• 1901 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist († 1975)