Family tree Drabbe » Elisabeth Cornelia Krapels (1900-)

Birthday September 24, 1900

• The temperature on September 24, 1900 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
  • December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

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• 1898 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer († 1990)
• 1898 » Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1899 » William Dobell, Australian painter († 1970)
• 1900 » Ham Fisher, American cartoonist († 1955)
• 1901 » Alexandra Adler, Austrian neurologist and psychologist (d.2001)
• 1902 » Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran († 1989)