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Birthday March 27, 1902

• The temperature on March 27, 1902 was between 2.7 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. 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.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1901 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1901 » Erich Ollenhauer, German politician († 1963)
• 1901 » Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet († 1971)
• 1902 » Charles Lang, American cinematographer († 1998)
• 1902 » Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer († 1975)