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Birthday February 11, 1899

• The temperature on February 11, 1899 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
  • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
• 1898 » Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 1964)
• 1900 » Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education († 1994)
• 1900 » Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar († 2002)
• 1900 » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist († 1958)
• 1902 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel († 1971)