FutureHistory » Juliaan Frans "Max" (Juliaan Frans "Max") van Landeghem (1900-)

Birthday August 19, 1900

• The temperature on August 19, 1900 was about 18.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Colleen Moore, American actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian († 2001)
• 1900 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer († 1962)
• 1902 » Ogden Nash, American poet († 1971)
• 1903 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer († 1978)