Family tree Corbey » Hendrika Drost (1899-????)

Birthday January 12, 1899

• The temperature on January 12, 1899 was about 7.5 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
  • February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
  • February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
  • March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic († 1959)
• 1896 » David Wechsler, Romanian-American psychologist and author († 1981)
• 1899 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1899 » Pierre Bernac, French opera singer and educator († 1979)
• 1901 » Karl Künstler, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1903 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)