Dreyer Tree » Diedrich Johan Richard Dekenah (1900-)

Birthday June 6, 1900

• The temperature on June 6, 1900 was about 14.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

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• 1898 » Ninette de Valois, English ballerina, choreographer, and director († 2001)
• 1898 » Walter Abel, American actor († 1987)
• 1900 » Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician († 1957)
• 1901 » Jan Struther, English author and hymnwriter († 1953)
• 1901 » Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia († 1970)