Genealogy Pot en Smit » BERNARD BAUDUIN GAUTIER (1899-????)

Birthday October 4, 1899

• The temperature on October 4, 1899 was about 12.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
  • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
  • October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer († 1966)
• 1895 » Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy († 1944)
• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)
• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)