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Birthday November 27, 1900

• The temperature on November 27, 1900 was about 9.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 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)
• 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.
  • January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic († 1989)
• 1898 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher († 1981)
• 1900 » Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host († 1981)
• 1901 » Ted Husing, American sportscaster († 1962)
• 1903 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1905 » Astrid Allwyn, American actress († 1978)