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Birthday March 19, 1900

• The temperature on March 19, 1900 was about 2.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • 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.
  • October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
  • December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1901 » Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer († 1976)
• 1904 » John Sirica, American lawyer and judge († 1992)
• 1905 » Albert Speer, German architect and politician († 1981)
• 1905 » Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer († 2010)