De Zeeuwse familie Keetlaer » Geertruida Magdalena Redegeld (1900-)

Birthday March 18, 1900

• The temperature on March 18, 1900 was about -2.2 °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 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • 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 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author and philosopher († 1990)
• 1901 » William Johnson, American painter († 1970)
• 1903 » E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist († 1944)
• 1903 » Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1944)
• 1904 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist († 1996)
• 1904 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author († 1926)