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Birthday September 29, 1900

• The temperature on September 29, 1900 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
  • February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • 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.
  • April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
  • 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.
  • December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian († 1980)
• 1898 » Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist († 1976)
• 1899 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins († 1980)
• 1899 » László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen († 1985)
• 1901 » Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1901 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist († 1981)