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Birthday November 18, 1902

• The temperature on November 18, 1902 was between -7.3 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (99%). 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.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Craig Wood, American golfer († 1968)
• 1901 » George Gallup, American statistician and academic († 1984)
• 1901 » V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1902 » Franklin Adreon, American film and television director († 1979)
• 1904 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1983)
• 1904 » Masao Koga, Japanese composer and guitarist († 1978)