Family tree Peijsel » Adriana Wilhelmina Vreugdenhil (1900-)

Birthday October 24, 1900

• The temperature on October 24, 1900 was about 9.9 °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.
  • 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.
  • 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 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman († 1994)
• 1898 » Peng Dehuai, Chinese general, 1st Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China († 1974)
• 1901 » Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1959)
• 1903 » Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent († 1960)
• 1904 » A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist († 1932)
• 1904 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright († 1961)