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  • Pretoria, South Africa
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1900
    Second Boer War

    The Capital was captured

    Pretoria, South Africa
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1900

    Roberts was forced to halt again at Kroonstad for 10 days, due once again to the collapse of his medical and supply systems, but finally captured Johannesburg on 31 May and the capital of the Transvaal, Pretoria, on 5 June.




  • Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1900
    Audrey Hepburn

    Mother Ella

    Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1900

    Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. She was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who served as Mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939).




  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1900
    Nikola Tesla

    The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1900

    Tesla had an agreement with the editor of The Century Magazine to produce an article on his findings. The magazine sent a photographer to Colorado to photograph the work being done there. The article, titled "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", appeared in the June 1900 edition of the magazine. He explained the superiority of the wireless system he envisioned but the article was more of a lengthy philosophical treatise than an understandable scientific description of his work, illustrated with what were to become iconic images of Tesla and his Colorado Springs experiments.




  • Wegeleben, Germany (Then Prussia)
    Sunday Jun 17, 1900
    Martin Bormann

    Born

    Wegeleben, Germany (Then Prussia)
    Sunday Jun 17, 1900

    Born in Wegeleben (now in Saxony-Anhalt) in the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Empire, Bormann was the son of Theodor Bormann (1862–1903), a post office employee, and his second wife, Antonie Bernhardine Mennong.




  • Stockholm, Sweden
    Friday Jun 29, 1900
    Nobel Prize

    Forming the Nobel Foundation

    Stockholm, Sweden
    Friday Jun 29, 1900

    The executors of the will, Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of the fortune and to organise the awarding of prizes.the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.




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