Family tree Rob Heesters » Theodoor Gerard Cornelus Schuurmans (1898-????)

Birthday July 6, 1898

• The temperature on July 6, 1898 was about 12.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • June 10 » Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
  • June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
  • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
  • September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
  • October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
  • November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar († 1994)
• 1898 » Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian soldier and composer († 1962)
• 1899 » Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentarian († 2016)
• 1900 » Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner († 1941)
• 1900 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1903 » Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)