Family tree Menting » Anna Johanna Wijers (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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
  • February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
  • 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.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)