Family tree Engel-Van Mierlo » Cornelia Adriana Antonia Merkx (1900-)

Birthday July 14, 1900

• The temperature on July 14, 1900 was about 20.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer († 1979)
• 1896 » Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish soldier and anarchist († 1936)
• 1898 » Happy Chandler, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky, second Commissioner of Baseball († 1991)
• 1901 » George Tobias, American actor († 1980)
• 1901 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and academic († 1956)
• 1903 » Irving Stone, American author and educator († 1989)