The Brown Tree » William McNiece CLARK (1900-1980)

Birthday December 1, 1900

• The temperature on December 1, 1900 was about 4.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
  • January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union († 1974)
• 1898 » Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer († 1977)
• 1898 » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba († 1977)
• 1900 » Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker († 1987)
• 1901 » Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 1950)