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Birthday January 10, 1900

• The temperature on January 10, 1900 was about 4.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
  • July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

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• 1898 » Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer († 1979)
• 1900 » Violette Cordery, English racing driver († 1983)
• 1902 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator († 1980)
• 1903 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor († 1975)
• 1903 » Pud Thurlow, Australian cricketer († 1975)
• 1903 » Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler († 1997)