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Birthday November 24, 1900

• The temperature on November 24, 1900 was about 6.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and businessman († 1978)
• 1895 » Esther Applin, American geologist and paleontologist († 1972)
• 1897 » Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player († 1953)
• 1897 » Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss († 1962)
• 1899 » Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic († 1966)
• 1904 » Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon († 1988)