Family tree Smith » Johanna Elisabeth van Gompel (1900-)

Birthday January 21, 1900

• The temperature on January 21, 1900 was about 4.4 °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.
  • January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
  • November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager († 1969)
• 1899 » John Bodkin Adams, British general practitioner and convict († 1983)
• 1900 » Anselm Franz, Austrian engineer († 1994)
• 1900 » Bernhard Rensch, German evolutionary biologist († 1990)
• 1900 » Elof Ahrle, Swedish actor and director († 1965)
• 1900 » Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Spanish Cardinal († 1971)