Family tree Doppenberg » Adrianus Marinus Blom (1899-????)

Birthday July 1, 1899

• The temperature on July 1, 1899 was about 13.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
  • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
  • October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director († 1962)
• 1899 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece († 1987)
• 1899 » Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer († 1993)
• 1901 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter († 1973)
• 1902 » William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1903 » Amy Johnson, English pilot († 1941)