Family tree Wijers-Hofman » Bartje Brouwer (1900-)

Birthday August 16, 1900

• The temperature on August 16, 1900 was about 22.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
  • May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss author and playwright († 1981)
• 1900 » Ida Browne, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1976)
• 1902 » Georgette Heyer, English author († 1974)
• 1902 » Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright († 1934)
• 1904 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)