Généalogie Delbarre Sébastien x Joly Delphine » Albert Henri Casterman (1900-)

Birthday April 13, 1900

• The temperature on April 13, 1900 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

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• 1899 » Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble († 1993)
• 1899 » Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete († 1975)
• 1900 » Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer († 1976)
• 1900 » Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor († 2006)
• 1901 » Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan († 1988)
• 1901 » Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1981)