Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Johanna Maria Verschoor (1900-)

Birthday November 26, 1900

• The temperature on November 26, 1900 was about 6.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • 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.

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• 1898 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1899 » Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer († 1936)
• 1900 » Anna Maurizio, Swiss biologist, known for her study of bees († 1993)
• 1901 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral († 1953)
• 1902 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1971)
• 1903 » Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English pianist and educator († 2014)