Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Cornelia Adriana Bot (1900-)

Birthday June 7, 1900

• The temperature on June 7, 1900 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • 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.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot († 1990)
• 1896 » Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1897 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1970)
• 1899 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic († 1973)
• 1902 » Georges Van Parys, French composer († 1971)
• 1902 » Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic († 2000)