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Birthday December 6, 1900

• The temperature on December 6, 1900 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
• 1898 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)
• 1898 » Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director († 1964)
• 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)