Family tree Frieling-Van Halteren » Wilhelmus Ruthgerus Bod (1900-)

Birthday January 9, 1900

• The temperature on January 9, 1900 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Gracie Fields, English actress and singer († 1979)
• 1899 » Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and weightlifter († 1942)
• 1900 » Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author († 1939)
• 1901 » Chic Young, American cartoonist († 1973)
• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)