Genealogy Van Tol / Tolhuijs » Jan van de MERWE (1900-)

Birthday April 26, 1900

• The temperature on April 26, 1900 was about 4.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer († 1972)
• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)
• 1900 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist († 1985)
• 1900 » Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher († 1969)
• 1900 » Hack Wilson, American baseball player († 1948)