Family tree Gerrit van Ommen » Harm Jan Plakmeijer (1900-)

Birthday July 19, 1900

• The temperature on July 19, 1900 was about 30.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%. 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 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist († 1981)
• 1896 » Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor († 1977)
• 1896 » Reginald Baker, English film producer († 1985)
• 1898 » Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher († 1979)
• 1899 » Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright († 1979)
• 1902 » Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)