Family tree Geerts / de Waal » Johannes Antonius Voesenek (1899-????)

Birthday November 9, 1899

• The temperature on November 9, 1899 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
  • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II († 1966)
• 1894 » Mae Marsh, American actress († 1968)
• 1897 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1897 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1900 » Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic († 1961)
• 1902 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter († 1968)