Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Gerardus Johannes Duijf (1900-)

Birthday November 12, 1900

• The temperature on November 12, 1900 was about 3.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

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• 1896 » Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and author († 1987)
• 1897 » Karl Marx, German composer and conductor († 1985)
• 1898 » Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast († 1999)
• 1900 » Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer († 1941)
• 1901 » James Luther Adams, American minister and theologian († 1994)
• 1903 » Jack Oakie, American actor († 1978)