Family tree Van Willigen » Johannes Adrianus van den Hurk (1899-????)

Birthday April 25, 1899

• The temperature on April 25, 1899 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
  • October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1977)
• 1897 » Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood († 1965)
• 1900 » Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations († 1996)
• 1900 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Mary Miles Minter, American actress († 1984)
• 1902 » Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic († 1964)