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    Birthday December 17, 1900

    • The temperature on December 17, 1900 was about 4.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
      • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
      • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
      • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
      • June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
      • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

    Christening day May 12, 1901

    • The temperature on May 12, 1901 was between 7.4 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (45%). 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 Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
      • July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
      • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
      • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
      • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
      • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
    

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    • 1898 » Loren Murchison, American sprinter († 1979)
    • 1900 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress († 1973)
    • 1900 » Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos († 1998)
    • 1903 » Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer († 1987)
    • 1903 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor († 1978)
    • 1904 » Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator († 1999)

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    Gert Esterhuizen, "Family tree Eric Esterhuizen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I13334.php : accessed January 8, 2026), "Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS (1900-)".