Family tree Jacobs » Adrianus Kwaijtaal (1900-)

Birthday October 22, 1900

• The temperature on October 22, 1900 was about 10.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • 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 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

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• 1897 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator († 1958)
• 1898 » Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist († 1990).
• 1899 » Salarrué, Salvadoran writer and painter († 1975).
• 1900 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist († 1927)
• 1903 » Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian († 1952)
• 1903 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)