Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis Hendrikus Dorr (1900-)

Birthday November 29, 1900

• The temperature on November 29, 1900 was about 2.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • 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.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic († 1963)
• 1899 » Andrija Artuković, Croatian Minister of Interior († 1988)
• 1899 » Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian person ever, last verified person born in the 1800s († 2017)
• 1900 » Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII († 1988)
• 1901 » Mildred Harris, American actress († 1944)
• 1904 » Egon Eiermann, German architect, designed the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church († 1970)