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Birthday September 12, 1898

• The temperature on September 12, 1898 was about 16.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
  • February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
  • April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
  • July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
  • July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
  • September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

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)