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Birthday September 4, 1900

• The temperature on September 4, 1900 was about 13.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.

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• 1896 » Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright († 1948)
• 1901 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars († 1985)
• 1902 » Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer († 1996)
• 1905 » Mary Renault, English-South African author († 1983)
• 1905 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox († 2003)
• 1906 » Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)