Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Johanna Cornelia Maria BAKKERS (1899-????)

Birthday October 6, 1899

• The temperature on October 6, 1899 was about 7.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » David Howard, American film director († 1941)
• 1897 » Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic († 1991)
• 1900 » Stan Nichols, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)
• 1900 » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer († 1934)
• 1901 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic († 1990)