Family tree Vanduynslager » Rachel Anna Vanmassenhove (1900-)

Birthday July 25, 1900

• The temperature on July 25, 1900 was about 24.4 °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.
  • January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • 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.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

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• 1896 » Jack Perrin, American actor and stuntman († 1967)
• 1896 » Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright († 1952)
• 1901 » Lila Lee, American actress and singer († 1973)
• 1901 » Mohammed Helmy, Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d.1982)
• 1901 » Ruth Krauss, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1902 » Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author († 1983)