Family tree Plugboer » Elisabeth Maria Smakman (1900-)

Birthday August 2, 1900

• The temperature on August 2, 1900 was about 17.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1900 » Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator († 1973)
• 1902 » Mina Rees, American mathematician (d.1997)
• 1902 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria († 1971)