Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Leonard Grosso (1900-1986)

Birthday July 27, 1900

• The temperature on July 27, 1900 was about 19.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Robert George, Scottish air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia († 1967)
• 1899 » Percy Hornibrook, Australian cricketer († 1976)
• 1902 » Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist († 1949)
• 1903 » Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright († 1990)
• 1903 » Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece († 2002)
• 1903 » Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor († 1966)