Descendants Wolf » Hindrik Cock (1900-)

Birthday February 10, 1900

• The temperature on February 10, 1900 was about -10.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

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• 1897 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1897 » Judith Anderson, Australian actress († 1992)
• 1898 » Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet († 1956)
• 1898 » Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author († 1979)
• 1901 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator († 1992)
• 1902 » Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)