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Birthday November 9, 1898

• The temperature on November 9, 1898 was about 7.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
  • September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
  • September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
  • October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
  • November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II († 1966)
• 1894 » Mae Marsh, American actress († 1968)
• 1897 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1897 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1900 » Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic († 1961)
• 1902 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter († 1968)