Kramer Family Tree » Ragnar Olufsen Finvik (1900-)

Birthday April 22, 1900

• The temperature on April 22, 1900 was about 15.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic († 1977)
• 1900 » Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966–67 († 1988)
• 1904 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat († 1991)
• 1906 » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator († 1997)
• 1906 » Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten († 1947)