Family tree Prins » Theodorus Johannes TACKE (1900-)

Birthday July 19, 1900

• The temperature on July 19, 1900 was about 30.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%. 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 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1896 » Reginald Baker, English film producer († 1985)
• 1898 » Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher († 1979)
• 1899 » Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright († 1979)
• 1902 » Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)