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Birthday November 4, 1899

• The temperature on November 4, 1899 was about 12.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
  • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
  • 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 » Carlos P. Garcia, Filipino lawyer and politician, 8th President of the Philippines († 1971)
• 1897 » Dolly Stark, American baseball player and umpire († 1968)
• 1900 » Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist († 1954)
• 1901 » Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic († 1974)
• 1904 » Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator († 2007)