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Birthday November 25, 1900

• The temperature on November 25, 1900 was about 4.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • 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.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director († 1989)
• 1898 » Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1971)
• 1900 » Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician († 1980)
• 1900 » Rudolf Höss, German SS officer († 1947)
• 1901 » Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer († 1948)
• 1902 » Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 1985)