FutureHistory » Teresa Giuseppina "Teresa" (Teresa Giuseppina "Teresa") Armirotti (1900-1978)

Birthday April 23, 1900

• The temperature on April 23, 1900 was about 8.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • 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 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Lucius D. Clay, American general († 1978)
• 1899 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1899 » Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult († 1982)
• 1900 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1959)
• 1900 » Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director († 1996)
• 1901 » E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist († 1988)