Family tree familie Brugman » Metje Anna HAK (1900-)

Birthday August 6, 1900

• The temperature on August 6, 1900 was about 14.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
  • 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.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

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• 1895 » Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer († 1963)
• 1900 » Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments († 2003)
• 1902 » Dutch Schultz, American gangster († 1935)
• 1903 » Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist († 1999)
• 1904 » Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach († 1993)
• 1904 » Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer († 1970)