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Birthday August 28, 1899

• The temperature on August 28, 1899 was about 18.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
  • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
  • December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic († 1982)
• 1898 » Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster († 1983)
• 1899 » Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet († 1951)
• 1899 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer († 1978)
• 1899 » James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer († 1976)
• 1903 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author († 1990)