Family tree Loosschilder » Adrianus Wilhelmus Bender (1900-)

Birthday August 24, 1900

• The temperature on August 24, 1900 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • 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 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)