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Birthday November 25, 1898

• The temperature on November 25, 1898 was about 7.3 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
  • April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
  • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
  • July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
  • August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian archbishop († 1963)
• 1896 » Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic († 1989)
• 1898 » Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director († 1989)
• 1898 » Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1971)
• 1900 » Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician († 1980)
• 1900 » Rudolf Höss, German SS officer († 1947)