Sjöstrand family tree » Astri Ingeborg BENGTSSON (1900-)

Birthday June 8, 1900

• The temperature on June 8, 1900 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 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 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • 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 » John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist († 1974)
• 1899 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician († 1945)
• 1899 » Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator († 1970)
• 1900 » Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously († 1945)
• 1903 » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet († 1987)
• 1903 » Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician († 1996)