1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Johan Herman Nusse (1900-)

Birthday January 1, 1900

• The temperature on January 1, 1900 was about 3.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.

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• 1895 » J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation († 1972)
• 1900 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat († 1986)
• 1900 » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor († 1990)
• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)
• 1902 » Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident († 1945)
• 1904 » Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan († 1982)