Family tree Weening » Hendrik Hoogerman (1900-)

Birthday June 16, 1900

• The temperature on June 16, 1900 was about 17.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • 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.
  • July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
  • December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Murray Leinster, American author and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1897 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1899 » Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano († 1972)
• 1902 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1902 » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author († 1984)
• 1906 » Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer († 1955)