Family tree Weening » Hendrik Kruithof (1900-)

Birthday April 7, 1900

• The temperature on April 7, 1900 was about 2.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 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.
  • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
  • 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.
  • 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 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Erich Löwenhardt, Polish-German lieutenant and pilot († 1918)
• 1897 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host († 1972)
• 1899 » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer († 1972)
• 1900 » Adolf Dymsza, Polish actor († 1975)
• 1900 » Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker († 1984)
• 1902 » Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer († 1941)