Family tree Andreae » NN (doodgeboren) Andreae (1900)

Birthday September 3, 1900

• The temperature on September 3, 1900 was about 13.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1900 » Percy Chapman, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland († 1986)
• 1901 » Eduard van Beinum, Dutch violinist, pianist, and conductor († 1959)
• 1905 » Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)