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Birthday November 27, 1902

• The temperature on November 27, 1902 was between -3.1 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (68%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher († 1981)
• 1900 » Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host († 1981)
• 1901 » Ted Husing, American sportscaster († 1962)
• 1903 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1905 » Astrid Allwyn, American actress († 1978)
• 1907 » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author († 2003)