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Birthday January 10, 1900

• The temperature on January 10, 1900 was about 4.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • 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.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
  • December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

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• 1898 » Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer († 1979)
• 1900 » Violette Cordery, English racing driver († 1983)
• 1902 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator († 1980)
• 1903 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor († 1975)
• 1903 » Pud Thurlow, Australian cricketer († 1975)
• 1903 » Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler († 1997)