Family tree Van der Waal » abraham van HOUWELINGEN (1899-????)

Birthday August 27, 1899

• The temperature on August 27, 1899 was about 16.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%. 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian († 1981)
• 1896 » Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet († 1933)
• 1896 » Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin († 1993)
• 1898 » Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian businessman and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1963)
• 1899 » C. S. Forester, English novelist († 1966)
• 1904 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect († 1963)