Family tree Jacobs » Harmina Hofkamp (1899-????)

Birthday August 7, 1899

• The temperature on August 7, 1899 was about 20.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
  • January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
  • July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
  • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
  • 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

• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)