Family tree Schopper » Franz Welchner (1900-)

Birthday October 9, 1900

• The temperature on October 9, 1900 was about 23.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1899 » Bruce Catton, American historian and author († 1978)
• 1900 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw († 1982)
• 1900 » Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic († 1990)
• 1901 » Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist († 1964)