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Birthday January 1, 1898

• The temperature on January 1, 1898 was about 5.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
  • August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
  • November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
  • December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1894 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1895 » J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation († 1972)
• 1900 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat († 1986)
• 1900 » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor († 1990)
• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)