Gemeente Archief Amsterdam 13/66v Geboren te Amsterdam op 21 december 1899 voormiddag acht uur in het huis Ferdinand Bolstraat 61 een kind van het mannelijk geslacht: Joseph Johannes Antonius. Vader: Johannes Hendricus Cornelis Letschert, diamantslijper, 23 jaar Moeder: Helena Wilhelmina Klaverstijn
akte 21-12-1899 reg.13 folio 66v
Gemeente Archief Amsterdam 6/71v Overleden te Amsterdam op 16-9-1900: Joseph Hendricus Antonius Letschert Vader: Johannes Hendricus Cornelis Letschert Moeder: Helena Wilhelmina Klaverstijn
March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
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.
Day of death September 16, 1900
The temperature on September 16, 1900 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort 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.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
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