Family tree Van Rijn » Johannes Albertus van Tunen (1900-)

Birthday March 10, 1900

• The temperature on March 10, 1900 was about 5.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • 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 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician († 1943)
• 1900 » Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever († 2017)
• 1901 » Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter († 1999)
• 1903 » Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer († 1931)
• 1903 » Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy († 1987)
• 1903 » Edward Bawden, British artist and illustrator († 1989)