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Birthday November 7, 1900

• The temperature on November 7, 1900 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • 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.
  • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1898 » Margaret Morris, American actress († 1968)
• 1898 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1899 » Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1900 » Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution († 1986)
• 1901 » Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator († 1980)