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Birthday October 12, 1900

• The temperature on October 12, 1900 was about 8.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
  • 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

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• 1896 » Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1903 » Josephine Hutchinson, American actress († 1998)
• 1904 » Ding Ling, Chinese author and educator († 1986)
• 1904 » Lester Dent, American journalist and author († 1959)
• 1906 » Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager († 1984)