Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Franciscus Peeters (1900-)

Birthday November 13, 1900

• The temperature on November 13, 1900 was about 7.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 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.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

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• 1894 » Bennie Moten, American pianist and bandleader († 1935)
• 1897 » Gertrude Olmstead, American actress († 1975)
• 1899 » Iskander Mirza, Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan († 1969)
• 1900 » David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer († 1975)
• 1900 » Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1904 » H. C. Potter, American director and producer († 1977)