Family tree De Backer - Evers » Paulina-Henrica Bogaerts (1900-)

Birthday March 30, 1900

• The temperature on March 30, 1900 was about 7.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Jean Giono, French author and poet († 1970)
• 1899 » Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Indian author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1970)
• 1902 » Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist († 2007)
• 1902 » Ted Heath, English trombonist and composer († 1969)
• 1903 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary († 1984)
• 1904 » Ripper Collins, American baseball player and coach († 1970)