Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Adophine Schoofs (1900-)

Birthday July 5, 1900

• The temperature on July 5, 1900 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • 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.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
  • December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

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• 1898 » Georgios Grivas, Greek general († 1974)
• 1899 » Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author († 1974)
• 1900 » Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal († 1987)
• 1900 » Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology († 1989)
• 1901 » Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer († 1981)
• 1902 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1985)