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Birthday November 22, 1900

• The temperature on November 22, 1900 was about 7.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 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)
• 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
  • May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

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• 1898 » Wiley Post, American pilot († 1935)
• 1899 » Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor († 1981)
• 1900 » Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF († 1987)
• 1900 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author († 1980)
• 1901 » Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1971)
• 1901 » Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer († 1999)