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Birthday August 27, 1899

• The temperature on August 27, 1899 was about 16.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%. 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.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1895 » Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian († 1981)
• 1896 » Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet († 1933)
• 1896 » Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin († 1993)
• 1898 » Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian businessman and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1963)
• 1899 » C. S. Forester, English novelist († 1966)
• 1904 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect († 1963)