Family tree Klavers » Adolf Johannes Maria Wibier (1900-)

Birthday January 13, 1900

• The temperature on January 13, 1900 was about -3.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gertrude Mary Cox, American mathematician († 1978)
• 1900 » Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler († 1967)
• 1901 » A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian († 1991)
• 1901 » Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian († 1978)
• 1902 » Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle († 1985)
• 1904 » Richard Addinsell, English composer († 1977)