Database Van Broekhoven » Suzanna Johanna Baksteen (1900-)

Birthday September 29, 1900

• The temperature on September 29, 1900 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • 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.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian († 1980)
• 1898 » Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist († 1976)
• 1899 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins († 1980)
• 1899 » László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen († 1985)
• 1901 » Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1901 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist († 1981)