Dreyer Tree » Elizabeth Anna Hattingh (1900-)

Birthday March 5, 1900

• The temperature on March 5, 1900 was about 2.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)
• 1900 » Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps († 1974)
• 1900 » Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor († 1944)
• 1901 » Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg († 1971)
• 1901 » Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1970)