Dreyer Tree » Elsie Magdalena Dreyer (1900-)

Birthday June 7, 1900

• The temperature on June 7, 1900 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot († 1990)
• 1896 » Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1897 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1970)
• 1899 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic († 1973)
• 1902 » Georges Van Parys, French composer († 1971)
• 1902 » Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic († 2000)