Family tree Kaper » Drent (1899-1899)

Birthday September 22, 1899

• The temperature on September 22, 1899 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
  • February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist († 1981)
• 1899 » Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver († 1990)
• 1900 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer († 1985)
• 1900 » William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator († 1967)
• 1901 » Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1901 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin († 1932)