Family tree Jacobs » Cornelia Maria Dingena Versteeg (1900-)

Birthday September 22, 1900

• The temperature on September 22, 1900 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 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.
  • January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  • June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • 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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• 1899 » Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver († 1990)
• 1900 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer († 1985)
• 1900 » William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator († 1967)
• 1901 » Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1901 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin († 1932)
• 1902 » John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer († 1988)