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Birthday August 4, 1900

• The temperature on August 4, 1900 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
  • July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer († 1975)
• 1899 » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1994)
• 1900 » Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom († 2002)
• 1901 » Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer († 1972)
• 1901 » Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer († 1971)
• 1902 » Bill Hallahan, American baseball player († 1981)