Family tree Brons » Hillegien Wijnholds (1900-)

Birthday May 14, 1900

• The temperature on May 14, 1900 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%. 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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. (d.1994)
• 1900 » Cai Chang, Chinese first leader of All-China Women's Federation († 1990)
• 1900 » Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic († 1971)
• 1900 » Hal Borland, American journalist and author († 1978)
• 1900 » Leo Smit, Dutch pianist and composer († 1943)
• 1900 » Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist and composer († 1957)