Family tree Jacobs » Franciscus Johannes van der Graft (1900-)

Birthday June 7, 1900

• The temperature on June 7, 1900 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 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 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.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot († 1990)
• 1896 » Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1897 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1970)
• 1899 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic († 1973)
• 1902 » Georges Van Parys, French composer († 1971)
• 1902 » Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic († 2000)