Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia van Opstal (1900-)

Birthday December 3, 1900

• The temperature on December 3, 1900 was about 1.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 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 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan († 1965)
• 1899 » Howard Kinsey, American tennis player († 1966)
• 1900 » Albert Hawke, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia († 1986)
• 1900 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1900 » Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer († 2004)
• 1901 » Glenn Hartranft, American shot putter and discus thrower († 1970)