Andersen family tree » Cornelia Johanna Maria van Tiggelen (1900-)

Birthday March 25, 1900

• The temperature on March 25, 1900 was about 4.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • 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.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.

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• 1899 » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor († 1994)
• 1901 » Ed Begley, American actor († 1970)
• 1903 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader († 2001)
• 1903 » Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Ukrainian-American theologian and scholar († 1990)