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Birthday July 28, 1899

• The temperature on July 28, 1899 was about 19.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  • February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
  • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
  • July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

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• 1896 » Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter († 1926)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gray, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1901 » Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist († 1986)
• 1902 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter († 1959)
• 1902 » Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1994)