Family tree Jacobs » Johanna Catharina Petronella Louwhoff (1900-)

Birthday August 10, 1900

• The temperature on August 10, 1900 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Jack Haley, American actor and singer († 1979)
• 1897 » John W. Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Darby Dan Farm († 1988)
• 1900 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1994)
• 1902 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1902 » Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1902 » Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress († 1983)