Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Jacobus Cornelis de Smit (1900-)

Birthday June 27, 1900

• The temperature on June 27, 1900 was about 13.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
  • 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.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways († 1981)
• 1900 » Dixie Brown, British boxer († 1957)
• 1901 » Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic († 1982)
• 1905 » Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player († 1976)
• 1906 » Catherine Cookson, English author and philanthropist († 1998)
• 1906 » Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter († 1967)