Family tree Weening » Wilhelmus Gijsbertus Weenink (1900-)

Birthday November 2, 1900

• The temperature on November 2, 1900 was about 11.5 °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.
  • January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • 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.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1899 » Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer († 1973)
• 1903 » Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1987)
• 1905 » Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright († 1989)
• 1905 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer († 1990)
• 1905 » James Dunn, American actor († 1967)