Genealogische gegevens uit Noord-Oost Overijssel » Martha de Hoop (1900-)

Birthday September 7, 1900

• The temperature on September 7, 1900 was about 12.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Jacques Vaché, French author and poet († 1919)
• 1900 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak († 1933)
• 1900 » Taylor Caldwell, English-American author († 1985)
• 1903 » Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author († 1994)
• 1903 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author († 1993)
• 1904 » C. B. Colby, American author († 1977)