Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Mathilde Théophile Antoinette Ghislaine Vandenborne (1900-)

Birthday March 27, 1900

• The temperature on March 27, 1900 was about -0.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
  • June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.

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• 1899 » Francis Ponge, French poet and author († 1988)
• 1899 » Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer († 1983)
• 1899 » Herbert Arthur Stuart, German-Swiss physicist and academic († 1974)
• 1901 » Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1901 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1901 » Erich Ollenhauer, German politician († 1963)