Family tree Murck » Adrianus Wilhelmus van Leeuwen (1900-)

Birthday October 30, 1900

• The temperature on October 30, 1900 was about 8.9 °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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator († 1928)
• 1896 » Rex Cherryman, American actor († 1928)
• 1896 » Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1897 » Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor († 1970)
• 1898 » Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager († 1989)
• 1900 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)