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Birthday December 3, 1900

• The temperature on December 3, 1900 was about 1.8 °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 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
  • 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.
  • June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan († 1965)
• 1899 » Howard Kinsey, American tennis player († 1966)
• 1900 » Albert Hawke, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia († 1986)
• 1900 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1900 » Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer († 2004)
• 1901 » Glenn Hartranft, American shot putter and discus thrower († 1970)