1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Maria Anna Herbers (1900-)

Birthday November 23, 1900

• The temperature on November 23, 1900 was about 5.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

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• 1897 » Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal († 1948)
• 1897 » Nirad C. Chaudhuri, British-Indian historian, author, and critic († 1999)
• 1899 » Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator († 1974)
• 1901 » Bennie Osler, South African rugby player († 1962)
• 1902 » Aaron Bank, American colonel († 2004)
• 1902 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor († 1982)