Family tree Eman/Swart-Radstok/Attevelt » Johanna Hendrika (Anna) van Kessel (1900-)

Birthday September 14, 1900

• The temperature on September 14, 1900 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
  • January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar († 1974)
• 1898 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer († 1986)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector († 1979)
• 1902 » Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist († 1993)
• 1902 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter († 1977)
• 1903 » Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author († 1980)