Family tree Weening » Nicolaas Hendrik Jacobus Jongezoon (1900-)

Birthday September 4, 1900

• The temperature on September 4, 1900 was about 13.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright († 1948)
• 1901 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars († 1985)
• 1902 » Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer († 1996)
• 1905 » Mary Renault, English-South African author († 1983)
• 1905 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox († 2003)
• 1906 » Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)