Family tree Van Rijn » Mor "Marinus" Veenendaal (1900-)

Birthday September 29, 1900

• The temperature on September 29, 1900 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

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• 1897 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian († 1980)
• 1898 » Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist († 1976)
• 1899 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins († 1980)
• 1899 » László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen († 1985)
• 1901 » Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1901 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist († 1981)