Genealogy Swaab-Hoogland tot 14 verwantschappen » Nicolaus Wilhelmus Maria Theodorus Johannes de Louw (1899-????)

Birthday October 17, 1899

• The temperature on October 17, 1899 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

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• 1898 » Eileen Sedgwick, American actress († 1991)
• 1898 » Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator († 1998)
• 1898 » Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet († 1971)
• 1900 » C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor († 1932)
• 1900 » Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
• 1900 » Yvor Winters, American critic and poet († 1968)