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Birthday December 25, 1900

• The temperature on December 25, 1900 was about 4.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Humphrey Bogart, American actor († 1957)
• 1901 » Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester († 2004)
• 1902 » Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1902 » William Bell, American tuba player and educator († 1971)
• 1903 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor († 1981)
• 1904 » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)