Dreyer Tree » Mildred Blanche Dreyer (1900-)

Birthday February 17, 1900

• The temperature on February 17, 1900 was about 4.7 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • 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.
  • January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
• 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)
• 1904 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic († 1980)
• 1905 » Rózsa Politzer, Hungarian mathematician († 1977)
• 1905 » Ruth Baldwin, British socialite († 1937)