FutureHistory » Maria Carolina Pyl (1900-)

Birthday April 12, 1900

• The temperature on April 12, 1900 was about 7.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Dorothy Cumming, Australian-American actress († 1983)
• 1894 » Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 13th President of Portugal († 1964)
• 1898 » Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress († 1976)
• 1901 » Lowell Stockman, American farmer and politician († 1962)
• 1902 » Louis Beel, Dutch academic and politician, 36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1903 » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)