Family tree Van den Heuvel & Brouwer » Geertruida Johanna de Groot (1900-)

Birthday June 22, 1900

• The temperature on June 22, 1900 was about 17.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

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• 1898 » Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author († 1970)
• 1899 » Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic († 1970)
• 1899 » Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape († 1980)
• 1900 » Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter († 1967)
• 1901 » Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach († 1947)
• 1902 » Marguerite De La Motte, American actress († 1950)