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Birthday September 12, 1899

• The temperature on September 12, 1899 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
  • February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
  • February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1956)
• 1897 » Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author († 1985)
• 1898 » Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator († 1943)
• 1898 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer († 1969)
• 1898 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer († 1963)
• 1900 » Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic († 1982)