Genealogy Deboysere » Albert Leon Bouchaert (1899-????)

Birthday October 19, 1899

• The temperature on October 19, 1899 was about 2.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
  • March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar († 1994)
• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player († 1991)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)
• 1900 » Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1901 » Arleigh Burke, American admiral († 1996)