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Birthday April 30, 1901

• The temperature on April 30, 1901 was between 6.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (41%). 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 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

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• 1896 » Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist († 1972)
• 1897 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1900 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet († 1984)
• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)