Family tree Driessens Zandvliet » Maria Petronella Stuyck (1900-)

Birthday June 24, 1900

• The temperature on June 24, 1900 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist († 1983)
• 1898 » Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1958)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer († 1945)
• 1901 » Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman († 1969)
• 1901 » Harry Partch, American composer and theorist († 1974)
• 1901 » Marcel Mule, French saxophonist († 2001)