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Birthday April 13, 1900

• The temperature on April 13, 1900 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble († 1993)
• 1899 » Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete († 1975)
• 1900 » Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer († 1976)
• 1900 » Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor († 2006)
• 1901 » Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan († 1988)
• 1901 » Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1981)