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Birthday April 23, 1899

• The temperature on April 23, 1899 was about 7.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
  • March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
  • December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

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• 1897 » Folke Jansson, American general († 1965)
• 1898 » Lucius D. Clay, American general († 1978)
• 1899 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1899 » Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult († 1982)
• 1900 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1959)
• 1900 » Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director († 1996)