Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Jan Hoogland (1900-)

Birthday June 24, 1900

• The temperature on June 24, 1900 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
  • 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 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist († 1983)
• 1898 » Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1958)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer († 1945)
• 1901 » Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman († 1969)
• 1901 » Harry Partch, American composer and theorist († 1974)
• 1901 » Marcel Mule, French saxophonist († 2001)