Eijsermans family tree » Henricus Walterus Scheffers (1900-)

Birthday October 30, 1900

• The temperature on October 30, 1900 was about 8.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator († 1928)
• 1896 » Rex Cherryman, American actor († 1928)
• 1896 » Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1897 » Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor († 1970)
• 1898 » Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager († 1989)
• 1900 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)