Family tree Kurvers » Theodorus Adrianus Ruijgrok (1900-)

Birthday August 24, 1900

• The temperature on August 24, 1900 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)