Genealogische data Golse Genen » Wilhelmina Hendrica van Schendel (1900-)

Birthday February 26, 1900

• The temperature on February 26, 1900 was about 10.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
  • 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 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • 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 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
  • December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1994)
• 1900 » Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer († 1988)
• 1900 » Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet († 1989)
• 1902 » Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit († 1991)
• 1903 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1903 » Orde Wingate, English general († 1944)