Stamboom Schmeitz » Nicolaas Lourentius Mak Mak (1900-)

Birthday September 22, 1900

• The temperature on September 22, 1900 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
  • December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver († 1990)
• 1900 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer († 1985)
• 1900 » William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator († 1967)
• 1901 » Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1901 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin († 1932)
• 1902 » John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer († 1988)