Dreyer Tree » Hester Petronella Pretorius (1898-????)

Birthday September 3, 1898

• The temperature on September 3, 1898 was about 18.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
  • October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
  • November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1900 » Percy Chapman, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland († 1986)
• 1901 » Eduard van Beinum, Dutch violinist, pianist, and conductor († 1959)