De bomen van Kreijkes » Johan Herman Noltus (1900-)

Birthday October 29, 1900

• The temperature on October 29, 1900 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
  • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
  • 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.

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• 1897 » Billy Walker, English footballer († 1964)
• 1897 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany († 1945)
• 1898 » Alan Barker, English soldier († 1984)
• 1899 » Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor († 1972)
• 1905 » Henry Green, English author († 1973)
• 1906 » Fredric Brown, American author († 1972)