Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Maria Adriana Brouwer (1900-)

Birthday July 10, 1900

• The temperature on July 10, 1900 was about 18.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Renée Björling, Swedish actress († 1975)
• 1899 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist († 1978)
• 1899 » John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1936)
• 1900 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter († 1993)
• 1900 » Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic († 1979)
• 1902 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)