Eijsermans family tree » N.N. van den Kerkhof (1900-1900)

Birthday April 26, 1900

• The temperature on April 26, 1900 was about 4.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)
• 1900 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist († 1985)
• 1900 » Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher († 1969)
• 1900 » Hack Wilson, American baseball player († 1948)