Stamboom Eijsermans » Cornelia Elisabeth Mertens (1899-????)

Birthday September 24, 1899

• The temperature on September 24, 1899 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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.
  • January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • 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 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
  • December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer († 1940)
• 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)