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Birthday September 22, 1899

• The temperature on September 22, 1899 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
  • February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
  • September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist († 1981)
• 1899 » Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver († 1990)
• 1900 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer († 1985)
• 1900 » William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator († 1967)
• 1901 » Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1901 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin († 1932)