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Birthday February 10, 1899

• The temperature on February 10, 1899 was about 17.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
  • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
  • February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
  • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
  • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1897 » Judith Anderson, Australian actress († 1992)
• 1898 » Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet († 1956)
• 1898 » Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author († 1979)
• 1901 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator († 1992)
• 1902 » Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)