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Birthday December 3, 1899

• The temperature on December 3, 1899 was about 7.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
  • 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 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » William Gropper, American cartoonist and painter († 1977)
• 1899 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan († 1965)
• 1899 » Howard Kinsey, American tennis player († 1966)
• 1900 » Albert Hawke, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia († 1986)
• 1900 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1900 » Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer († 2004)