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Birthday July 10, 1900

• The temperature on July 10, 1900 was about 18.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
  • March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Renée Björling, Swedish actress († 1975)
• 1899 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist († 1978)
• 1899 » John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1936)
• 1900 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter († 1993)
• 1900 » Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic († 1979)
• 1902 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)