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Birthday December 2, 1900

• The temperature on December 2, 1900 was about 2.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor († 1970)
• 1899 » John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot († 1952)
• 1899 » Ray Morehart, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1900 » Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 († 1993)
• 1900 » Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor († 1985)
• 1901 » Raimundo Orsi, Argentinian-Italian footballer († 1986)