Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia van Nassau (1900-)

Birthday July 5, 1900

• The temperature on July 5, 1900 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Georgios Grivas, Greek general († 1974)
• 1899 » Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author († 1974)
• 1900 » Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal († 1987)
• 1900 » Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology († 1989)
• 1901 » Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer († 1981)
• 1902 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1985)