Family tree Zijlmans » Martinus Adrianus Korssen (1900-)

Birthday June 5, 1900

• The temperature on June 5, 1900 was about 20.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
  • 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.

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• 1898 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director († 1936)
• 1898 » Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. († 1960)
• 1899 » Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere († 1992)
• 1899 » Theippan Maung Wa, Burmese writer († 1942)
• 1900 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1902 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist († 1957)